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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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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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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent..."
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"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
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"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
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"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."
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"Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express."
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"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
Talent
"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music."
Music
"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
Difference
"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing."
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"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."
Music
"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."
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"Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear."
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"Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music."
Music
"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
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