technique quotes

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.