There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you…

“Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

— Rita Dove

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication…

— John Paul Caponigro

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity…

— George Bernard Shaw

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”

— Amit Kalantri

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their…

— Gelsey Kirkland

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off

— Maurice Blondel

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.

— Li Ning

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what…

— Amanda Palmer

I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something…

— Jeffrey Lewis

“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.”

— Joseph Kerman

Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It…

— Allan Kozinn