Quotes About Improvisation

I'm kind of worried. What are we supposed to do here in the middle of nowhere? Same as we always do for the kids... pretend like we know what we're doing.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

The creative mind cannot be constrained by logical thinking.

According to an CFR article published in 2017, members were not happy with the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. "The Trump administration seems determined to muddle through its foreign policy without initial guiding principles, benchmarks for progress, or the means of adjudicating between competing objectives, and with a wildly improvisational leadership style that has no precedent in recent history.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

Frankenstein' was more programmed, but 'Dracula' we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren't sure how it was going to end - it wasn't written in the script.

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.