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

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak Perlman

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

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Kim Weston

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
Bobby Sherman

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Herbie Hancock

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