All Quotes By Tag: Skill
“If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted.”
“A skillful football player is a product of hours of practice”
“A skillful instrumentalist has his story to tell of his ordeal in rehearsals”
“The greatest skill is the ability to persevere.”
“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”
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“Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.”
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“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.”
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“Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there’s a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that’s genuinely goodFrom one that’s base but merely has succeeded.”
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“I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can’t stop. Always flying over my destination. I’ve come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I’m viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I’ve reached my destination to success.”
“loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shapeof a helicopter the same size as the helicopterand that’s it’s only skilland it isn’t good enoughbut it’s still amazing.”
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“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”
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“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche – originality loses its authenticity in one’s efforts to obtain originality.”
“When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.”
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“I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”