Quotes About Improvisation

I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had some kids and they asked me if I would mind doing it. I was very happy to do it. That's where I got my training before I went to the public. I did that for several years. It was actually the best vocal training I could have had.

Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void. Back in the day, everyone's cadenzas were improvised, and improvisation was taught in conservatories.

I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table or sometimes I follow him, sometimes he follows me. I had a lot of treats in my pocket. We worked with Omar Von Muller, the dog trainer. It was very easy because it was a big movie.

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

In this league you have to throw sidearm sometimes; you're going to have to drop your arm, move while shuffling your feet. You're never going to be set.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I'll go in there with nothing and it's just conversation with the character.

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

If the whole idea, in the original bebop days, was to get to soloing, then that's all it should be about.

It's kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina." "That's a good name for it. . . . Where are the other vaginas you made?" Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table.

Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, scum it well, and it will give the soup a high French taste.

So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, and leave the world wondering how the hell you did it.

Unleash Your Creativity. -Aaron Jhinkoo

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

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