Quotes About Improvisation

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.

I'm pretty nifty at thinking on my feet, even when I'm actually sitting down with a renter in my embrace, but this fellow's sudden appearance had me more than a little stumped

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.

That great moment when a plot twist appears in your story, one you never thought of, one coming from some hidden place in your mind.

Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded and there ain't nothing on the roll?/To prove you're a man, you must wipe with your hand/Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl.

I guess I'll just … play it by ear." She could have bitten her tongue off.

For the human body was a bizarre piece of improvisation, full of organs that had been diverted from one function to another, not always very successfully—and even containing discarded items, like the appendix, that were now worse than useless.

Look here, Watson; you look regularly done. Lie down there on the sofa, and see if I can put you to sleep." He took up his violin from the corner, and as I stretched myself out he began to play some low, dreamy, melodious air,—his own, no doubt, for he had a remarkable gift for improvisation. I have a vague remembrance of his gaunt limbs, his earnest face, and the rise and fall of his bow.

There's no use in talking about the plan, because of course nothing went the way it was supposed to.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

We are all making it up as we go along, unmaking our minds and remaking ourselves.

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

We'll always have jazz

Just something I rustled up earlier." I wink at him. "As we Cordon Bleu chefs do." Nathaniel carves the chicken with an

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.