Quotes About Improvisation

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

James grabbed one of the curtains and used it to wipe the dog crap off his leg.

They told me that Arturo Belano once gave a lecture at the Casa del Lago and when it was his turn to talk he forgot everything. I think the lecture was supposed to be on Chilean poetry and Belano improvised a talk about horror movies.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

You haven't lived until you duct-taped a diaper on a dog.

So every day, before every meal, my question is the same. What can I make with what I have?

Aunt Lorna buys all our shoes big to grow into, Mina explained to Miles-san. That's why they slip around like that. Lieutenant Johannes, peering doubtfully into the depths of the refrigerator, murmured, Beer... ? Do you like beer, Mina? Miles-san asked. She shook her head, making her straight black hair swing around her chin. Thought not, somehow. You'll have to do better, Johannes. Aren't all you attaché fellows supposed to be ImpSec trained? Improvise!

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know. Louis Armstrong

What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.

He said he didn't need religion because he had jazz.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

being a parent … there is no plan. It's just a set of mistakes you hardly notice making.

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Life is mostly freehand.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

You have to invent life.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.