Quotes About Improvisation

The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I've always freestyle-d and did random songs.

I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff.

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.

I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it—and on just such foolish, tenuous, holy threads as that, I suppose, hang the destinies of us all.

And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of the Mouser's story, treasuring it the more because he knew it was an improvisation, his favorite proverb being, He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

I get cast at the last minute. I don't know, maybe somebody drops out and they can't get someone, and someone is like, 'Oh, how about Katia Winter?'

I liked Jonathan Winters for his character development.