A Quote by Herbie Hancock

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
American - Musician
Born: April 12, 1940

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

Will Rogers

A prodigy to me is someone that is enormously gifted at a young age - to the point that people can't deny it. I think when you are a young kid and you are a prodigy, other parents, when their child is on your team, they aren't even mad that their kid isn't getting the shine because that other kid is special.

Jamal Crawford

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.

W.N.P. Barbellion

Nobody ever told me learning to let your child grow would be one of the hardest things I was going to go through!

Kim Zolciak-Biermann

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Max von Sydow

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

Larry Wilmore

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

Nick Hornby

Nobody told me that I would be just a player to be exchanged. Nobody likes to be a part of that situation, especially not me.

Bojan Krkic

Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

Kami Garcia

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Michala Petri

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

Pardis Sabeti

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Franz Liszt

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Itzhak Perlman

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

Hank Williams, Jr.

When I was 12 my brother told me I had to wear the burqa, but I really wanted to play, because I was a child. It's an age you want to play outside and have a good time. And they told me I had to wear it or I couldn't leave the home. I felt it was controlling me, because when I wore it I felt I wasn't a child anymore.

Malina Suliman

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

Julie Andrews

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