Quotes About Improvisation

A medida que iban filmando iban escribiendo el guión: como la vida misma que se va haciendo a medida que se va pudiendo hacer. Uno nace, hace y deshace y toma pa donde puede tomar. Asegún. Y ahí vamos a ver adónde vamos.

During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father pierced the door, creating towel hooks on one side, medieval blinding devices on the other...No matter how inconvenient a household malfunction might be, Kazem can always make it worse, for free.

Andar no es un deporte. El deporte es una cuestión de técnicas y de reglas, de resultados y de competición, y todo ello requiere un largo aprendizaje: conocer las posiciones, dominar los gestos adecuados. Y, mucho después, vienen la improvisación y el talento.

He felt like a chess-master who, two moves from achieving checkmate, suddenly sees a live kitten dropped on to the middle of the board, scattering pieces.

You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Larry Wall, who created the programming language Perl, once said, "When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass." Hashtags, @replies, and retweets emerged in just that way.

Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Sans le jazz, la vie serait une erreur

Amazon executives were going to have to substitute artifice and improvisation for truly comprehensive selection.

While other dot-coms merged or perished, Amazon survived through a combination of conviction, improvisation, and luck.

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

One opposite of imagination is "efficiency.

Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.

The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.