Quotes About Talent

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

I'm a classically trained jazz pianist - I've been playing since I was 3 years old.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

My grandfather was an excellent harmonium player, and after him, I, too, trained myself and can play a few musical instruments well.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.

The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you'd be trained. And that's skills that they can't take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.

You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.

I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.

I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.

When I was in high school, they opened an arts high school. I didn't read music, and I wasn't a trained dancer, so I was like, 'OK, I guess I'll go into acting.' I asked my mom if she knew any plays for my audition, and the only one she knew was 'A Raisin in the Sun.'

I'm not a trained musician.

I play the piano, but I'm not classically trained.

I'd been trained in choral, gospel, and a little bit of opera.

I trained in Hindustani, and then I went to music school.

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

I always wanted to play with both feet, so today I'm happy I trained it so often.

I had, like, a keytar. I was always attracted to the guitar, but I never really thought that I could be good at it because I was trained on piano, so it was kind of a jump.