Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
I was never a prodigy.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.