Quotes About Talent

The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.

Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

I see Maradona every time he grabs the ball and accelerates.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.