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• I’m beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• I don’t have technique because I never learnt any.

  Emma Thompson

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

  Mstislav Rostropovich

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• I don’t know if I have a technique. I’m just trying to remember the words.

  Dennis Farina

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• Lock it out so you can perform your movement, disarm, or technique.

  Burton Richardson

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• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  Bruno Walter

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• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  Iris Murdoch

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• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

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• Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else’s technique. I like mine.

  Frankie Muniz

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• When I’m painting the picture, I’m really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don’t get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

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• If it’s fast, no I don’t have enough piano technique. In that case, it’s probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

  Bill Bruford

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• So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

  Bill Bruford

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• Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

  Troy Vincent

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• That was’ one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

  Fay Wray

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• I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  Fay Godwin

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• Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

  Georg Simmel

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• There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn’t talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

  Gelsey Kirkland

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  Tags in Classical, Technique, Band

• I don’t think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

  Sargent Shriver

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•  The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in ‘straw-man device, technique or issue,’ was popularized in American culture by ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

  William Safire

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