Quotes About Improvisation

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. So I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

Precise sentences were my ideals, though in practice I was slipshod and sentimental. I began to seek a balance between improvisation and revision.

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

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Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.

Pointless to spend too much time in planning, anyway, given the propensity of life to make sudden left-hand turns without warning.

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise.

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

When I get dressed, it's like freestyling.

In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.

Jazz drummers traditionally are not always prepared to just hold down the beat; it's like they're soloing the whole time.

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.

People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it - they're enjoying it. It's like listening to any other style of music. It's saying something to you, and you kind of just absorb it.