Quotes About Improvisation

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

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

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

One of the innate dilemmas of biography is that life is not much like a book. It rarely contains a clearly stated thesis, coherently developed. Life sprawls, stumbles, advances, retreats, gropes for the light switch, and once in a while makes intuitive leaps whose import is barely understood until later, if ever, by the leaper. Life seems to me an improvisation .

Omdat de e-toets van mijn schrijfmachine los zit - in plaats van resoluut in te grijpen en het ding vast te plakken probeer ik hem iedere keer met een splintertje van een lucifer vast te zetten, wat eigenlijk niet zo verwonderlijk is want het valt je pas op als je de machine gebruikt en dan kan je niet gaan plakken - moest ik denken aan een voortand van mij waar ook wat beweging in zit.

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

Usa lo que ya tengas a mano o lo que puedas conseguir por poco dinero. Y ponte en marcha. El equipo no es lo relevante. Lo relevante es sacarle el máximo partido a lo que tengas. Tu arte está en tus dedos.

los planes no son compatibles con la improvisación. Y tienes que ser capaz de improvisar. Tienes

When you turn guesses into plans, you enter a danger zone. Plans let the past drive the future. They put blinders on you. "This is where we're going because, well, that's where we said we were going." And that's the problem: Plans are inconsistent with improvisation.

we're not going to spend any money making the changes. If something doesn't work we'll fix it. We want creativity before capital and quick and crude rather than slow and elegant.

Jugaad started as the Hindi word for an ultracheap vehicle first fashioned by rural Punjabi carpenters. Having nothing but empty pockets and a problem to solve, the local craftsmen took an old diesel irrigation pump, attached it to a wooden frame, and added wheels and the discarded steering system from a broken-down jeep. They called this jalopy "jugaad," roughly translated as "using few resources and a lot of determination to find an innovative solution to a problem.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.