Some students regard technique as something that can only stifle their creativity, and use this as a convenient excuse to ignore this aspect completely. The opposite is of course true. A poor instrumental technique will restrict your creative potential enormously.
Technique is just a label.
Behind it hides one of the most intimate relationships a musician can ever have. When a student comes face to face with his instrument for the first time the two meet as complete strangers. The immediate objective is to get to know each other and to start building a winning team. But in order to come together change is required. However an instrument does not have a mind or a living body, and therefore can not change its ways.