Technique Quotes

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lock it out so you can perform your movement, disarm, or technique.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

I have no guitar technique.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.