Quotes About Technique

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful, it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.