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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"

"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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"My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing."

"People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words."

"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others."

"I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school."

"Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon."

"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."

"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy."

"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art."

"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."
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