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Quotes About Talent

I think I'm a very poor piano player.
~ Ray Manzarek
I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
~ Maceo Parker
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
~ Sam Hunt
Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.
~ Tony Bennett
I'm not saying I'm the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.
~ Anastasia Soare
I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.
~ Julian Cope
I'm a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they're both great. They both deliver.
~ R-Truth
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
~ Taylor Swift
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
~ Famke Janssen
I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.
~ John Mayall
My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.
~ Dervla Kirwan
If I had to pick a favorite band of all time, it would be Rush.
~ John Petrucci
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.
~ Freddie Highmore
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
~ Ziggy Marley
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
~ Chris Cornell
I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
~ John Milius
I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
~ Grace Potter
When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.
~ Charlie Sifford
I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.
~ Dinesh Karthik
I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.
~ Fallon Sherrock
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
~ Slash
From Under 15s to Under 19s, I was concentrating playing for England, it was close to me, I could just go to St George's Park, it was nice. Going back to school when you've just played for England, it was amazing, you're one of the best players in the country, that's why you're getting picked.
~ Alex Iwobi
I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.
~ Robert Glasper
The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
~ Adam Hicks