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Quotes About Expression

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck in, Dennis!', and the head says, 'just a minute... ' But I probably don't use this as often as some others.
~ Dennis Skinner
To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. I don't adhere to any methods, because I simply don't believe in them. I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically.
~ Vladimir Horowitz
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.
~ Marjane Satrapi
There can be no technique or formula for creativity.
~ Asha Bhosle
I have no guitar technique.
~ Warren Zevon
To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.
~ Mike Portnoy
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
~ Tony Bennett
I'm the complete technique of rhyme. I don't have no boundaries.
~ Tech N9ne
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
~ Richard Thompson
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
~ Brian May
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
~ Zac Posen
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
~ Bill Sienkiewicz
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
~ Robin Trower
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.
~ John McGahern
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
~ Haruki Murakami
Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.
~ Rupert Friend
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
~ Elaine Stritch
I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.
~ Twyla Tharp
It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
~ Mike Nichols
I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together.
~ Ronald Frame
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
~ Jane Lynch
You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.
~ Frank Vincent
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
~ Sydney Greenstreet
Sometimes I just rely on technique on stage, but it's not about technique. It's about how much you want to deliver the message to the audience. That's all.
~ Miyavi