Quotes About Improvisation

I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

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

Synthesize or improvise.

Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again.

May the gods defend me from heroes with duct tape. And heroes always seem to have duct tape.

Leo ran down the hall waving a wrench. "Man, did you have to destroy the plumbing?

The guys had already cleaned up. Or done the best they could with a quick wash and teeth brushing at Corey's. There hadn't been any spare toothbrushes, so I'd done mine with my finger and tried not to look in the mirror. One glance had told me that no amount of touch-ups was going to help. I needed a twenty-minute shower.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

cut a piece of moist skin from a dead horse, and tied it tightly over the wound. Curly

Jazz is democracy in music.

Jazz shows us how to find a groove with other people, how to hold on to it, and how to develop it.

Jazz is the art of timing. It teaches you when. When to start, when to wait, when to step it up, and when to take your time—indispensable tools for making someone else happy.

Music was just one of the tools we employed to create excitement. The jazzman's objective, however, was solely musical: Through his improvisation, he wanted to take people deep into his actual feelings and his world.

Like characters in good books or movies, families and friends don't communicate with one another in composed prose. It's all action. Even the words we use- the movie characters' dialogue- are action. And it's almost all improvised.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

This is my emergency kit. It contained a roll of duct tape, a spare pair of pants, an envelope with two hundred dollars, two bags of dried fruit, two packages of beef jerky, three bottles of water, a roll of thick shop towels you see mechanics use, a small metal pipe - just right for cracking a skull with - and a fake beard. Look, you never know.

In those moments of chaos, everything you thought you could depend on falls away. Everything turns upside down. Heroes turn out to be cowards, and vice versa. Your best-laid plan fails, your most haphazard improvisation saves your life. Friends turn out to be enemies. In the end, Zoey, you can trust nothing. You can only have another plan ready to go. One after another.