Quotes About Improvisation

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

That is what's important. The life of the line. When I draw, it's like tied and untied writing. My lines can be vivid or dead. The drawing is beautiful if the line is alive. A line is in danger of dying all along. My method of drawing is very much like jazz improvisation. I improvise with the lines and the colors. (...) There's great joy in drawing. Writing is drawing in different apparel, and drawing is another way of writing. And when I draw, I write. Perhaps when I write, I draw.

Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. She spread the mixture onto two slices of Wonder bread, then rolled each slice into a cylinder and passed

Il suffit de prêter son attention et son regard pour comprendre que nous faisons tous partie d'une gigantesque symphonie qui, chaque matin, dans une étincelante cacophonie, improvise sa survie.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

I like to work spontaneously.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.