“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
“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
“I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.” KnowsNeedsFeelsStoriesActorsClassTalentFineNegativeRelationRingsTunesCravePublic RelationsBrass Author:Michael Welch
“I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.” NeedsGamesTalentTrackTunesSwagHottestAuto Tune Author:Spencer Pratt
“Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.” I CanHardSchoolThreeAbilityTalentKeysExerciseHigh SchoolClubsThrownTunesGleeGreat Talent Author:Alan Alda
“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.” IfsFactsSpiritCertainGirlOpportunitySpeakLanguageTalentMoonSingingDuesTunesPeculiarQuartersDiscoveringCreepyOnce Upon A TimeSlothFlutesGnomeJadeFruitcake Author:Ursula Vernon
“I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.” WantWellsMeanI CanGirlMagicTalentFiguresBandPicksGet BetterTunesBassUnicornTell A Girl Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsMadeHardFeltMillionsRecordsFeetRocksTalentDogTenMouthsCornersFeel GoodMade ItTunesTallHorizonRock And RollHoundsHound Dogs Author:Stephen King
“The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.” RealHelpingValuesChoicesAttentionLeaderTalentSmartDrawingCoreDevelopingAspirationTunesCore ValuesSmart Choices Author:Stewart D. Friedman