Quotes About Skill

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

I must play the instrument I've got.

There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Ninja's understand that training time is never wasted time.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.