Technique Quotes

• Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do what you do.

  

  Brian McDonald
  • Storyteller
  • Comic Book
  • Will Eisner

• In short, Coltrane's tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Mean

• I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Technique
  • Difficulty
  • No Idea

• It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • Different
  • Real
  • Actors

• Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just throw it all out the window, and express what you feel... and it will come through that you are a technician.

  

  William Dobell
  • Feels
  • Economy
  • Honing

• I think one thing that is very frustrating and is something that all guitar players are looking for at all levels is “consistency”. Command and technique are all about control, and consistency means executing things at various tempos, being able to fall out bed and play guitar, as well as controlling the tones all over the instrument, such as bending, vibrato and intonation.

  

  Joe Stump
  • Technique
  • Consistency
  • Guitar Player

• I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Character
  • Technique
  • Readers

• Everyone knows there's real emphasis on technique in La Liga, and I'm a technical player; in that sense, it's a good fit. But all leagues are a good fit for me - I can play anywhere.

  

  Michy Batshuayi
  • Knows
  • Emphasis
  • Anywhere

• Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Ideas
  • Technique

• Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

  

  Kay WalkingStick
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Methodology

• The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Values
  • Jazz
  • Technique

• I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • Developed
  • Truthful
  • Bought

• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Lyrics
  • Atmosphere
  • Parliament

• But the burns were like the fingerprints of an older time—before Ziegler and his brethren decided that traditional sources of value were merely superstition. “Those thousands of generations of technical progress” obliterated ritual, emptied out all meaning, glossolalia without divinity. I decided that’s what the painted mother foresaw, that she was saying farewell to candlelight, that she knew she was trapped inside a painting addressed to the future, where it could only be, however great, an instance of technique.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Future
  • Value
  • Painting

• Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Lying
  • Survival
  • Mechanism

• The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Game
  • Career
  • Car

• You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

  

  Alec Baldwin
  • Change
  • Young
  • Technique

• Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Frustration
  • Gains
  • Employment

• I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

  

  Cat Zingano
  • Tired
  • Break
  • Technique

• I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Support
  • Values
  • Killing

• Every technique brings up a different kind of demand on the use of the element.

  

  Anni Albers
  • Use
  • Demand
  • Technique

• A lot of times I’ll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn’t put all the hours in. I didn’t do the research and development. I didn’t take it to the next level.

  

  Eddie Bravo
  • Development
  • Research
  • Next Level

• You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Love

• A resident's surgical skill is judged by their technique and speed. You can't be sloppy, and you can't be slow.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Speed
  • Technique
  • Skill

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