Quotes About Improvisation

Creativity never disappoints".

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

There's no preparation for poetry.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

The street finds its own uses for things.

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.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

with jazz and folk musicians, everything was expected to be thrown into the crucible of a gig to see if it sank, floated, or maybe even flew.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.

top-down chains of command are not particularly efficient: they tend to promote stupidity among those on top and resentful foot-dragging among those on the bottom. The greater the need to improvise, the more democratic the cooperation tends to become.

Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.

Since there was no teacher listed for lunch, I grabbed a pen and wrote Mr. E Meat.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.