Quotes About Genius

O artista tem que ser gênio para alguns e imbecil para outros. Se puder ser imbecil para todos, melhor ainda.

O herói, o santo, o gênio ou o profeta do nosso tempo há de ser neurótico. O sujeito se angustia porque se opõe a um mundo que fracassou

The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.

Each man's morality, thought Georgia, is a compromise between the strength of his character and the strength of his environment. Where you have no character to fix the ratio, you get the genius and the lunatic, to whom morality is meaningless.

for all we know the origin may have been due to a genius like that of Sequoya, the illiterate Cherokee who in the nineteenth century AD took the fact of English literacy as a proof of concept, and proceeded then to develop a syllabary for his own language from first principles.

For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

Mozart is my first strength.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

I'm a musical genius.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!