Do you know the jazz artist Jacob Collier? He’s brilliant. He's about my age, maybe a little older. He wrote an essay the other day about just this topic. He knows a lot about music theory, and he wrote an essay about whether he feels it's important to know music theory or not - as a musician. His conclusion was no, he I doesn’t think it is important to know music theory necessarily because this won’t make you a better musician. I take this view.