Quotes About Improvisation

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

I've never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don't know - I don't plan the books out ahead of time. So I have no idea how much ground we'll cover.

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

This script was like a dish made from things you'd found in your larder and had to use up before they went off: a Welsh mountain, a casino, a blonde with a big bust.

the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along.

The key to a fertile imagination is filling your mind with bullshit.

Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat.

I had a roll of non sequiturs in my pockets and I was just tossing them out across the water trying to get a good skip going.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

You planned as much as you could, then you tap-danced like mad.

I guess that plan is up the window.

When he was done, he wiped himself with a length of pitch-covered rope, and then

I am a trained classical pianist. I can play all the masters. I can improvise on the piano, as well as play a variety of styles of music. Yet, I cannot build a piano. Is it necessary for me to know how to build a piano to be a good musician?

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Couldn't you play better tennis with the net down?

Just a pot noodle. Oh - and I found a tin of dog food on the tool shelf.' Misery hissed through Lister's gritted teeth. 'Well,' he said finally. 'Pretty obvious what gets eaten last. I can't stand pot noodles.

It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.

Pep organised his attack (creating the conditions for one v ones, or looking for superiority across the pitch) in a way that nobody else did in the Premier League, where attack was too often left to improvisation.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners

We might be forced to eat raw s'mores