Quotes About Improvisation

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

One time, I was so hungry, I ate the beans in a bean bag chair.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

As long as you're dancing, you can Break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just Extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

Ne pas improviser ce que vous ne pouvez pas gérer

I know it's a mess and it's half-taped together and it's old and busted– but it's mine. And you gotta make that work, right? You gotta make your own stuff work out.

make away out of no way

But a spontaneous traveler inevitably will end up with the tummy gauge suddenly on empty, in some place where cuisine is not really the point: a museum cafeteria, or late-night snack bar across from the concert hall. Eating establishments where cuisine isn't the point—is that a strange notion?

If you don't know what it is, then it's jazz

When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation.