Quotes About Talent

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

Jenson Button is the real deal. It just takes the right environment, the right time - don't doubt he has all the talents to win Grands Prix and challenge for championships.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

I used to sing when I was younger. I left it alone for a long time, 'cause I was like, I don't even know if I know how to sing for real.

I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

I think that if I had played piano professionally, I would never have written books.