Quotes About Talent

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

I started writing songs at age 15.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

Professionally, I have no age.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

I started tennis around age 2.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.