Quotes About Craftsmanship

What do I love most? Working with words. Words in a sentence are like pieces of a puzzle; you try out a whole bunch, then turn them this way and that until they fit into the whole. Creating flow is crucial. There's nothing like the moment when, after working and reworking a sentence, everything falls into place, and you know that it's right. What I do love least? Touring. It's grueling, time-consuming, and lonely.

The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages,

Pens are too light.Take a chisel to write.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that--that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it.

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

I've always loved the recording studio.

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for us to create the feeling that this was done in a room.

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.