Quotes About Talent

As far as the sexy quotient goes, I think it's not just the physical attributes or money, but talent, a great personality coupled with a good sense of humor that matters. The last quality is especially important to me.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

A good song is a good song.

If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing.

If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.

I've been at Man City and won the league. I've played for England. I've had success and good times - just not enough for someone of my ability.

I'm playing all the time. It's a gift, and I'm so happy for that gift. It's really engulfed my life in a good way. I make time.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

I see myself and my contemporaries being part of some good work in Bollywood.

I go where the good work is being done.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.

Priyadarshan makes good films because he is a good writer.

The Austrio-Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a pianistic miracle. He could play anything on site and composed over 400 works centered around his instrument. Among his key works are his Hungarian Rhapsodies, his Transcendental Etudes, his Concert Etudes, his Etudes based on variations of Paganinini's Violin Caprices and his Sonata, one of the most important of the nineteenth century.

No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person.