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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

"If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out."
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"If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect."

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

"Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way."

"I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function."

"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."

"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."
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