Quotes About Skill

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

It's insane for me to say this, but I've never been in a room with anyone that's more talented on the electric guitar than Brendan O'Brien.

My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

I collect craft. It inspires me.

I feel like I can play with any team. Whatever team that is, I feel like I can make an instant impact.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

Ashok Mehta did not go to any institute. He did not carry the baggage of formal education.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

I can do a gig without an instrument.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.