Quotes About Prodigy

Genius is born, not paid.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image.

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

I started tennis around age 2.

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

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

It was a trick no one expected of an American, the combination of a good ear, a good memory, and an understanding of the rules of grammar, so that I appeared more of a prodigy than I was.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a monster or anything abnormal, because I always had a lot of different interests. But kids tend to focus on one thing, and for me it was violin.

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.