Quotes About Talent

It's crazy to think about getting recognized for something you just love to do.

I just wanted to be the best MC. I wasn't about owning a Bentley. I wanted to be recognized as the illest MC.

I stumbled onto Peggy Feury in the '80s. I recognized her brilliance immediately; it took her awhile to recognize mine.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at the instance of any person? Everyone knows that the film industry is highly competitive, and one gets a job on one's talent only and not on any recommendation.

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

I don't consider myself to be a great musician, but my first album was a record hit in Pakistan.

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.