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"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."
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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."
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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."
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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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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
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"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."
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"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
Moon

"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."
Development

"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
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"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God."
God

"So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music."
Music

"For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them."
Potential

"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day."
Education

"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"
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"That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise."
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