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I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. Kanye West

Art Time Age School Old National Out Fine Like Been Years Chicago Art School Trained Artist Prodigy Competitions

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. Anthony Doerr

Me Gone Something Instantaneous Feel Like Got Lot Very Quickly Getting Just Happened Prodigy Lucky Fast Rejections

I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it. Christian Pulisic

Some Put Prodigy

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it. Flume

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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones. Flume

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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. Frank Black

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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. Herbie Hancock

Me Nobody Child Prodigy

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. India Arie

Vocal Like She Lot Brandy Prodigy

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

You Those Possibilities Terrible Because Got Child Curse Prodigy

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. Josh Gad

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

Freak Something Voice Had Like Child Prodigy Who Four

I was never a prodigy. Lindsay Davenport

Never Prodigy

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. Luciano Pavarotti

Great You Past Our See Singer None Them Prodigy Profession

Prodigy was definitely family... It definitely sucks not to have him here. Metta World Peace

Family Definitely Him Prodigy Sucks Here

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. Mildred Dresselhaus

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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister. Nick Flynn

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Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. Skrillex

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My father's Alfred Newman - born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras in the teens. I think he's one of the youngest conductors to conduct Broadway and worked with George Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter - went out with Irvin Berlin in 1930 to Hollywood and never left. Thomas Newman

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I've always wanted to do a tune with The Prodigy because I'm such a massive fan. Tulisa

Massive Because Always Wanted Fan Tune Prodigy

That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me. Hilary Hahn

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When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts. Hilary Hahn

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