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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."
Explore more quotes by Mel Torme
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
"It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section."
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