“Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.” WritingMatterAttentionPracticeTalentInstrumentsCrafts Author:Susan Wiggs
“All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.” PlayGamesSoundTalentInstrumentsMusicalAdmireAliensBoardsTunesAbsentArtifactsHummingMusical InstrumentsBoard GamesMusical Talent Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.” PeopleWritingMayArtI CanPlayTurnsSpaceRoomsDoorsTalentExpressionInstrumentsAssumingPaintHandleArtisticLockedLiving RoomArtistic ExpressionLocked Doors Author:Robert Fulghum
“You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.” IfsLyingVoiceEmotionTalentInstrumentsSubtextGreat Voice Author:Marc E. Platt
“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.” MindHas BeensReasonSeemsEarthEvilTalentEternalMassInstrumentsExcitedImpressionRevelationsDisgustingViciousAbhorrence Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated
“We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.” PlayUniverseRealizingAcceptingTalentInstrumentsSymphony Author:Jeane Dixon
“With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.” GivingActingTalentInstrumentsSticksMusicalSecondsMusical InstrumentsShowcase Author:Ed Sheeran
“People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.” PeopleInspirationalHelpingGivenSoundMusicTalentProduceMusicianInstrumentsMusicalTunesMagnificentEmanateMusical Instruments Author:Franz Grillparzer
“They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.” MadeSoundTalentMovementInstrumentsRapRap Music Author:Max Roach
“Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.” DoeActorsActingSeeingTalentTraditionInstrumentsGreat Actors Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.” NationsFourTalentAmountScientistInstrumentsPlusSheerInventorStatesmenFranklinPhilanthropist Author:Charlie Munger