Refined Technique Quotes

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.

I had never seen anyone edit the way that I edit before I did it, and it's just what felt right to me.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.