Quotes About Improvisation

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

when I removed my first aid kit from my pack and opened it up, all of my Band-Aids blew away.

To achieve the kind of hard beat 'Gasm needed to back up Hartz's guitar madman act, Reichmann could have done as well pounding on a trash-can lid.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Ik weet niet hoe de wereld in elkaar zit, Onno, maar misschien is dat mijn kracht. Als je het mij vraagt zit zij helemaal niet in elkaar, net zo min als de inhoud van een vuilnisbak. Volgens mij is de wereld – althans op aarde – één reusachtig, geïmproviseerd rommeltje, dat in onverklaarbare redenen nog steeds min of meer functioneert. De mens hoor eigenlijk helemaal niet thuis in het heelal; maar nu hij er eenmaal is, is in allerlei opzichten alles mogelijk.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

Creativity is the fun of putting together unexpected ideas

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

I am so glad TV had not been invented then—it meant I had to, and most certainly did, exercise and develop my powers of imagination.

Life is an ad hoc affair. It has to be improvised all the time because of the hard fact that everything we do changes what is. This is distressing to people who would like to see things beautifully planned out and settled once and for all. That cannot be.

Stephanie Plum: Do you have your stun gun and pepper sray? Lula: Does a chicken have a pecker? I could invade Bulgaria with the shit i've got in my handbag.

She stuffed the goodies into her hidden running belt, jogged out of the park, and went shopping for duct tape, a razor blade, paper clips, and another disposable phone.

How about we cut a hole in your bedspread and punch your head through it," Lula said. "That should be about your size.

I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can.

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.