Quotes About Improvisation

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

She has. No. Plan.

If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.

Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.