Quotes About Skill

With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.

Motley Crue recorded 'Tonight' and it's great fun to hear other people do my stuff. The only problem with it is it's so damn hard to play.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

You look at Kawhi Leonard, Tony Allen, Draymond Green: they are great on ball, and they are great team defenders as well. You want to be both of them, not just one.

Tony Bradley is pretty good.

Tony Harrison is not on my level.

My plan is to show everyone that Tony Harrison is not on my level.

Obviously I'm not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I'm tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

I know the type of player I am so I don't feel there's too many people in the NFL that could really do what I'm capable of doing when the ball's in my hands.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

It's so God-given - my talent - because it took so very little time to get it down to where I was able to perform.

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

When Mahela Jayawardene was with us before the Test series against Pakistan he said it should all be about enjoying your talent and skill. He took his bat out there to score runs and enjoy playing the game.

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.