# Creative types who owe their success to being born at the right time.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 8, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836 "2012-01-08T18:25:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/21 "2012-01-09T03:17:45Z")

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Too crude in both animation skills and humor taste for much earlier. I say that as something of a South Park fan.

Kid Rock, big time.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/22 "2012-01-09T03:50:29Z")

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Picasso

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/23 "2012-01-09T23:01:52Z")

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Might **David Bowie** fit into the “being around at the right time” thing?

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**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/24 "2012-01-09T23:12:52Z")

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IMHO, artists fall into two categories: Those whose names you recognize and whose works you know and those who didn’t have access to the publicity machinery [agents, reps, galleries, record labels or lineage] required to bring notoriety.

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/25 "2012-01-09T23:15:09Z")

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Steve Jobs (and to a lesser extent, Steve Wozniak, but Jobs was always the creative one of the pair. Woz would have been brilliant but languished in obscurity giving away his inventions).

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-types-who-owe-their-success-to-being-born-at-the-right-time/608836/26 "2012-01-10T00:24:14Z")

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Andy Warhol for sure. I agree with Elvis.  
Even Mozart could qualify, IMHO.

And, according tohimself, Paul Simon. 😉

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