Technique Quotes
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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
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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
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The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock
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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.
Nigel Kennedy
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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
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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
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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
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One day the clean technique will come to my head.
Alexei Yagudin
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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
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Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.
William Bernbach
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Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.
Kay WalkingStick
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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
