Quotes About Improvisation

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job to satisfy them.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?

It's good to be prepared, but spontaneity is very important - just to let yourself go and let it be whatever it is.

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

And I love non-actors. Just like I love working with children. They have spontaneity and a great energy. You're just not sure what you're going to get.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

Vetrimaaran expects his actors to be spontaneous. Since he mostly prefers shooting in live locations, you have to be prepared for everything when you work with him.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.