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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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Personal Development
"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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Personal Development
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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Personal Development
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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Personal Development
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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Personal Development
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all."
Music
"Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving."
Music
"I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano."
Music
"I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food."
Food
"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance."
Ignorance
"When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything."
Music
"When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo."
People
"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."
Art
"Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best."
Talent
"When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key."
France
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