OK,

Which is more important - Technique or style?

I for one don't like reading interviews with famous players who claim to know nothing of music theory, and would have us believe that they were born with the ability to play and musicality that they have... Latest guilty party I've read saying that kind of stuff is Carlos Santana. I reckon he probably had to practice once.

I guess if you had no technique, style wouldn't matter and vice versa. Assume you have the choice of being 'average' in one and 'outstanding' in the other, which would you sell your soul to the devil to have?