Quotes About Improvisation

I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it is to me; and if it's less interesting for me, it will be that way for the reader.

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it's done.

Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.

The choir are screaming now, fugue-permutations veering and careening to the outer limits of the field where any ratio of intervals or pitches might hold sway: tonics swapping with subdominants within the space of single notes that seem to play out in three octaves all at once, false entries, inversions, retrogrades and diminutions running riot through all keys -- until, suddenly, these fall away, like clouds

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

The plan is: there is no plan.

began removing things from the bucket. First came a Swiss Army knife, a flashlight, a penlight, and a bottle of extra-strength glue, which Kate examined to be sure its lid was tightly closed. Then she produced a bag of marbles, a slingshot, a spool of clear fishing twine, one pencil and one eraser, a kaleidoscope, and a horseshoe magnet, which she yanked with some effort from the metal bucket. "I've been through

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

I looked at him curiously. 'I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?' 'I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.' 'I don't think I've come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,' I mused. 'Probably not: I made it up.' 'Maybe you should write it?' I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.

If you have too much of a plan, it'll show up in Darkstalker's view of the future," Anemone observed. "See, so it's actually better to wing it," said Qibli. "Ha ha, dragon pun, wing it. I'm hilarious." He did a little flip in the air.

I dare say they are hauling away the cat before hooking on the fish.' Pocock said, 'Perhaps they will stopper with a dog.' Stephen said, 'It is my belief that they have raised a mouse, and that having seized it with a fox they will clap on a lizard.

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

The writing profession that I have always known is changing, old media is ossified, and what I know of new media is that it is casual, opinionated, improvisational, largely unedited, full of whoppers, often plagiarized, and poorly paid.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.