Prodigy Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him ! — Jonathan Swift
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem… — Brad Paisley
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. — Luciano Pavarotti
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his… — Twyla Tharp
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. — Gioachino Rossini
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should… — Osamu Dazai
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of… — Anthony Doerr
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin
I was never a prodigy. — Lindsay Davenport
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent… — Josh Gad
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. — Herbie Hancock
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my… — Black Francis
The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything… — Misty Copeland
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. — Bobby Sherman

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