"Have fun with your talent" is an wonderful thought, Steve! I agree that if you are going to be a creative person, then you should enjoy creating . . . and you should 'have fun' acquiring whatever skills are needed to create your music or art or literature or whatever.
A singer who 'writes songs' but plays no instruments and needs someone to help figure out the chords needs to grow up and learn a little music. Trying to claim sole creative ownership of the songs is ridiculous - - This person is not having fun with their talent - they probably are living in sheer terror that they have a limited number of creative sparks inside of them, and that soon all their creativity will be gone forever.
If I wanted to be a painter, I would 'have fun' learning about different paints and brushes and methods of using those raw materials.
If I wanted to be a architect, I would 'have fun' learning all about different materials and structural forms and designs.
If I wanted to be novelist, I would 'have fun' learning how to write novels.
This person who claims to write songs, but has no understanding of music is not 'having fun' with their talent . . . if they were having fun, they would learn about music and they would be more focused on their present creative efforts rather than the past.
I feel pity for this person . . . I hope they can get their brain and their life in gear and start to 'have fun' with their talent.
"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
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