Perhaps, too, you have been told that talent is the sine qua non of
successful musicianship. “Many men of many minds,” runs the old,
alliterative proverb, and this is one of the queer notions they harbor.
Talent is helpful, certainly, when used in connection with other
attributes, but talent is not necessary. Talent is lazy, as a rule, and
scorns the drudgery of art.