William Shatner Quotes

Mozart is my first strength.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I always composed music as a little kid.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.

You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James.

I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and played back a tune by ear. My parents were watching and said to each other, 'Maybe we should give him music lessons.'

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

My parents - Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth - discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.

I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.