Quotes About Skill

I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.

Turns out I'm good with guns even though I don't like them.

My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Twenty-four hours a day football was a topic at home. I've always loved to play the game.

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented.

If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

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.

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I would love to fight whoever is the best. I want to test myself on how much I can achieve.

Most important to me is to play well and to win. That is what the fans want to see.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.