Quotes About Improvisation

I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.

Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

Schubert Impromptus that Louise Bogan gave me—Opus 90 and Opus 142, Gieseking.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.