Technical Proficiency Quotes

I'm not really good with technology.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.

I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

If you have the quality, you can only improve as a young player through match practice. That seems obvious, and it's proven to be true in my case.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

I was always quite technical as a player, but when you are the size I am, if you are crap in the air, it is going to look bad.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

I've played with some of the best that have ever played, obviously. I don't know if there is anybody that is a better technician than Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is another quarterback that I was fortunate enough to play with for a bunch of years.

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.