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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."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can."

"All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it."

"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."

"There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is."

"It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart."

"Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together."

"Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player."

"I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle."

"I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living."
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