A poet's work is to name the unnameable to point at frauds to take sides start arguments shape the world and stop it going to sleep.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
If you're an original thinker you are going get told 'no' a lot and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.