Quotes About Improvisation

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.

I want to be able to take fights on short notice.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's to hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.

I was pretty obsessed with 'Saturday Night Live.'

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Oh , kinda playing things by ear

Stories are invented as you go along...

So plans of attack, what good are they then? We try, we do what we can, but what really counts is what you do when command breaks down.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

So if you get the impression from time to time that we're sort of winging it here so be it. The first thing is to locate the narrative line. It doesnt have to hold up in court. Start splicing in your episodics. Your anecdotals. You'll figure it out. Just remember that where there's no linear there's no delineation. Try

She felt funny, strange, making up lies as quickly and smoothly as if she'd been doing it all her life.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.