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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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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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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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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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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."
Forget
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
Music
"I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references."
Music
"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses."
People
"If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it."
American
"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
Music
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
Will
"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."
Now
"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
Will
"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
Art
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