Quotes About Talent

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

Music's another big love of mine.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.