Jimmy Iovine Quotes

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Every man loves what he is good at.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

I'm not talented.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

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

A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.

I've always been of the opinion that great talent can't be held down.

I happen to think, really, that I'm good at what I do.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

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

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.