Age Quote by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as…

— Justin Bieber

My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never…

— Laz Alonso

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected -…

— Saul Steinberg

Before I became famous, people who know me closely knew me first as a dancer, then a composer. I make music because I dance.

— Devi Sri Prasad

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.…

— Steve Vai

“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that phase, a…

— Wafaa Bilal

“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that…

— Katie Noonan

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

— Gunther Schuller

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

— Marcello Giordani

A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all,…

— Steve Lacy

“I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious…

— Sara Sheridan