Quotes About Talent

All good song-writers have no more than half a dozen good tunes in their systems, and if they have that many, they are liberally blessed.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Brahms writes music. I just write songs.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Normal people do not create art.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Reconoce que si la libertad para los poderosos y los inteligentes significa la explotación de los débiles y menos talentosos, entonces habrá que limitar la libertad de los poderosos y los inteligentes.

Noi chiamiamo grandi storici solo quelli che non soltanto hanno il pieno controllo della documentazione fattuale ottenuta mediante l'impiego dei migliori metodi critici disponibili, ma possiedono altresì la profonda penetrazione immaginativa che caratterizza i romanzieri di talento. Dopo tutto - lo ricordava molto tempo fa lo storico inglese G.M. Trevelyan - Clio era una musa.

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

A great artist is never poor.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.