Music Quote by anne rice

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“There was never talent, only hard work.”

— Yixing Zhang

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He was more open to the talent of others, to be inspired by and challenged by that talent, but also to the idea of…

— Brent Schlender

“[…] his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from…

— David Foster Wallace

“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it…

— Hermann Hesse

“Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.”

— Tom Robbins

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities,…

— Jacques Barzun

“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”

— George Selden

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had…

— Richard Russo