Average Talent Quotes

Most people can do nothing at all well

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

You may not be the best at one thing.You may not be the strongest or the fastest, but you're also not going to be terrible at something. You practice everything.

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.

A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

I was a pitcher, played third base, shortstop. I was good at all the positions and great at none. All it takes is a .111 lifetime batting average to make you go into acting.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.