Quotes About Talent

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.