Quotes About Improvisation

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously.

I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

Sometimes you see me on the pitch, and you think I'm playing on the street.

The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I never had a long-term plan.

I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.

I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I don't plan massively in advance.

I'm happy to have a job. I play a little, write a little, perform some. It's not like it's an engineered, well-manufactured plan or anything. I just do what I do.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we feeling. It's sporadic.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.