Quotes About Talent

I grew up playing piano and violin, and then basketball took over.

It's really easy to go viral, but I think it's really hard then to have a career.

A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

We've always had talented kids coming out of Maryland, Baltimore, D.C., Virginia, New Jersey, eastern Ohio, Columbus, Akron.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I can't perform, I can't design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.