Quotes About Improvisation

One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.

The word jugaad means a lot to us Indians.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.

My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'

It would be wrong to plan too much ahead of a match. You've got to go with the flow, go with your instincts.

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

Be it flute, piano or any instrument, there would always be a reason to bring in the particular feel into a song.

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

Most of the musicians I play with - aside from the form and structure of the music - the interpretation is up to them.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

music. To be an artist is not, finally, about product; it is about process, a way of being, and every solitary is of necessity an artist—an artist of her or his life, with little or no help from conventional rites and forms and mythologies, making it up as we go.