Danny Brown Quotes

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I got rock in me.