Quotes About Improvisation

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Ramsey spun an uncurled paper clip

Biros mostly. Whatever's around."' Waldegrave

Rubenfeld spoke no Hebrew. His mind was racing to come up with something—anything—that these wild-eyed dirt farmers would understand. He threw his arms in the air and yelled the only Yiddish words he could think of. "Gefilte fish! Gefilte fish! Shabbes! Shabbes!

Entrepreneurs typically start on a path they do not see as risky at all, then something happens that upsets their expectations and, being too far into their projects to turn back, they are forced to improvise. Those who get over this hump, or mountain, of unexpected trouble are the surviving entrepreneurial successes.

So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica.

A working imagination is research.

How does anyone know from moment to moment what to say or do next until he senses the reaction to what he just did? He doesn't know. Life is always action/reaction. No monologues. No prepared speeches. An improvisation no matter how we mentally rehearse our big moment.

Hawkins sought out the freshest, most original musicians, and had little patience for those who would quibble over the difference between "modern" or "progressive," "swing" or "bebop." "I don't think about music as being new, or modern, or anything of the type," he mused. "Music doesn't go seasonable to me."44

Thelonious Monk's music is essentially about freedom.

The other side of that coin, which Nansen found hard to fathom, was that someone like Shackleton was only true to himself when improvising; fighting against the odds. He would wither in the face of systematic preparation, and only in a crisis did he come into his own.

I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

The dance of life should be created from moment to moment with individuality and spontaneity.

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

Imagination is intelligence having fun.

Cos'era?» «Non lo so» Gli si illuminarono gli occhi. «Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz»

Quando non sai cos'è, allora è jazz.

We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.