Quotes About Improvisation

I often know what my subject is and what my location is. I know my start and my end, and the rest I leave up to the relationship.

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.

Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.

He said jazz music was invented by the first generation out of slavery. I thought that was beautiful because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying something, something about freedom.

He heard a page turning beside him: Paola obviously had kept some text secreted about her person or under the cushion where she sat, left there in the event that life presented her with the necessity of spending three minutes with nothing to read.

he said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along

Holly hit her head against the shelving unit, and I grabbed her hair and helped her hit her head two more times. There was no tae kwon do name for that maneuver, but it felt great.

George would come in and say, 'Hey, we're going to have this giant snow battle, start doing some storyboards,' Ã¢â'¬Â says Johnston. "But there was no script! But George would say, 'Don't worry about that, just do the storyboards.' The process then was to lay out random shots and pick out some that would conceivably work. George would work on the script at home while I would be working on the boards.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

I simply cooked the way I felt, based on the ingredients at my disposal. That became my definition of American cuisine.

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

ALAN ZWEIBEL: We worked on "Update" up to the very last minute. Between dress and air on Saturday nights, I would go up to my office and I would watch the eleven o'clock news and if something hit me, I'd write it and it would be on television a half-hour later. You know, there were two shows where I was literally under the "Update" desk writing stuff and handing it up to Chevy while he was actually on the air.

How many performance artists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I don't know. I left early.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting.

are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse to do so upon the theory that once a character is created he or she will do something interesting

Jack had inquired if much music had been written for organ and cello—he certainly hadn't heard any—but the woman from Sibelius Academy said that Ritva and Hannele were famous for being "improvisational.

It was usually on about the fourth day that I put in that note of spontaneity for which I am known.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.