Quotes About Talent

If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift

Value is what you trade to get money. The more valuable you are the more money you attract.

Being rich is an untalented artist's consolation prize.

With money in your pocket you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.