Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.
Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.
You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
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.