Quotes About Improvisation

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

I didn't own a guitar when I was in the Germs. I would just borrow one from the opening band.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

You see it in jazz musicians, who never rehearse exactly what they do, but just seem to know when to take center stage, when to fade into the background. When jazz artists were compared with classical musicians in brain function, they showed more neural indicators of self-awareness.15 As one jazz artist put it, "In jazz you have to tune in to how your body is feeling so you know when to riff.

Quando os músicos de jazz foram comparados com os músicos clássicos quanto a funções cerebrais, mostraram mais indicadores neuronais de consciência de si mesmos. Conforme disse um músico de jazz, «no jazz, é preciso sintonizarmo-nos quanto ao que o nosso corpo está a sentir, para sabermos quando avançar para um solo».

The trouble came from the boys, or, more exactly, from the boys between the ages of about five and about eleven, who did not come with any plans or expectations, and who therefore took their entertainment as a matter of adventure, making do with whatever came to hand.

Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable amount of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

ÎnÈ›elese deodat? plictiseala acestei vieÈ›i unde fiecare poteca era o improvizaÈ›ie, iar o buna parte din viata diurna È›i-o petreceai urm?rindu-È›i piciorele

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.

None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.

Research tells us that brainstorming becomes more productive when it's focused. As jazz great Charles Mingus famously said, "You can't improvise on nothing, man; you've gotta improvise on something.

There's a saying: "Life is first draft". Means you pretty much make it up as you go along, and there's never a chance for a rewrite.

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it.

of plans and hasty departure.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.