Quotes About Talent

I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.

I came from a reality show and my whole family including my sisters Shakti and Mukti Mohan have achieved fame through reality shows.

We are four sisters and when we joined the industry we were outsiders and we did not know anyone in the industry. However, singing was something that I loved doing since my childhood.

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

I'm in a band with my three sisters called the Atomics, which is awesome.

I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'

I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.

Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.

I remember going to a music company and while I was sitting there I saw Panchamda. He saw me and hid from me - because he had come there asking for work. That was the most painful moment of my life - that one of the greatest composers, a living legend, was looking for work.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

I started playing music when I was about six and didn't discover Indian classical music until I was fifteen. So, essentially, I had a lot of catching up to do.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.