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"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"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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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
Talent
"The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue."
People
"The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody."
Time
"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."
American
"Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to."
Father
"Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act."
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"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
Music
"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."
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