Quotes About Improvisation

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note – it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

My unpremeditated verse.

Jocelyn told me that she had never seen me so out of control of my life. Even the recent record of my mishandling of events with Mary and Francine might have alerted her to the fact that I often confronted problems like an improvising chimpanzee faced with the dashboard of a jumbo jet. What she did not grasp was that old muddle-minded Johnny was trying, above all else, in a spirit of life-long caprice, to re-establish his own authority and get his simian claws on the levers.

A capacidade de improvisar bem é um talento altamente respeitado e pode conduzir a uma interação de facto interessante entre os músicos intervenientes. Até pode tornar-se competitiva, à medida que os músicos se estimulam reciprocamente a chegar a novos patamares.

Cookbooks can be wonderfully entertaining and informative, but I don't like having to bring them with me to the stove. My goal as a cook has always been not so much to attain some specific sense of mastery as to be able to just go into the kitchen, take up what I find there, and make a meal of it.

The mere act of doing the unexpected thing created one funny moment after another.

As we talked, we realized that we actually improvise everything we do, from the way we walk down the street to the way we prepare a meal. Can you imagine speaking without improvising? Yet the word improvisation terrifies most people, musician and non-musician alike.

If you--or anyone on this train, for that matter--thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you'd be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.

Acting is a form of confusion.

When you're spontaneous, there's always the opportunity that you'll surprise yourself and discover something new.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

To be honest, I don't have a particular recipe, but I normally start with the chord progression and then I build it from there. I listen to a lot of jazz, so the chords are really important to me.

The best thing is when you make something up, and then someone asks for the recipe.

I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.

I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out!

I hate recipes.

There are places in the Knobs where well just make stuff up at the end of a song. Maybe we wont end it. Maybe well go on another three minutes and see what the guitar does. You go into it with reckless abandon and hope that some kind of magic might happen. And usually it does.

When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.