Talent Quotes
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That's not what I'm trying to do. I love 'hood' music, but my talent is as a singer. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'
My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
I wanted a participation song, something the fans could latch on to. It was aimed at the masses. I wanted to write something that everyone could sing along to, like a football chant. And at the same time, I thought it would be nice to have a winning song that's meant for everybody. It worked a treat.
Montserrat Caballé is sensational. She has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin. The way she delivers a song is so very natural. It's a very different gift.
Liza, in terms of sheer talent, just oozes with it. She has sheer energy and stamina, which she gets across the stage, and the way she delivers herself to the public is a good influence. There is a lot to learn from her.
I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it is show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.
My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.
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