Trent Reznor Quotes

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Some people are just naturally good. I always found ways to become good.

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.

I've always been talented, always been able to sing or remember a song after hearing it one time.

Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

People think it comes easy to us because we are from a family full of musicians, but I feel it's all about talent.

I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.

I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.

There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.