The best advice I ever received was not to try to crash in at the top.
Announcer Milton Cross suggested I not audition at ABC New York (I was
eighteen years old), but put in some time with small stations and get the
kind of experience that might make a big network want me. He was right,
even though I didn't comprehend it at the time.
-- Hugh Downs
I had no desire to be involved in the music busine but I saw that Jerry
Brandt, who was the head of the music department at William Morris, had a
limousine, and he was hanging out with Mick Jagger....