Ruta Sepetys Quotes

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune.

I play the piano.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

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

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

Normal people do not create art.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

A truly great artist has many talents.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

You look on the Internet, and people are transforming themselves on a daily basis, and it's not a superficial thing, it's not a vain thing, and it's not an "I don't like the way I look" thing. It's people truly being creative. It's a way of making your mark and making a statement, and I love that. Beauty is making a statement in whichever way you choose to do so, and I think that's a beautiful thing.