Quotes About Craftsmanship

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic tendency. My great grandmother was a jewelry designer, and her daughter was a ceramic tile muralist.

I have a tendency to overcut my movies.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

We own a proprietary recipe for Casamigos Tequila that can't be duplicated.

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

I always want to make my records sound great so they'll stand the test of time, and that takes a lot of work.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

Is there anything you can do?' 'Well, in college I was studying-' 'Don't give me your goddamned life story! I'm interested in your trade, skill, talent, profession, ability, whatever you want to call it. What, specifically, can you do?' 'Well,'Marvin said, 'I guess, when you put it that way, I can't do anything much.

He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.

Bob Clearmountain.