Talking with Ira Glass about studying with Nadia Boulange and the relationship between technique and style:
In order to arrive at a personal style you have to have a technique to begin with. In other words, when I say that style is a special case of technique… you have to have the technique. You have to have the place to make the choices from. If you don’t have a basis on which to make the choice, you don’t have a style at all; you have a series of accidents.
