Quotes About Improvisation

I'm resolving to just wing it and see what happens.

They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce. We need more special effects and dance numbers.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

He acted like doing too much advance preparation would diminish his skills in improvising.

Just play it by ear," Bannon said. "We'll figure it out." That was the Trump way. Playing by ear, acting on impulse. Pure Trump.

Through its inborn faculty of hearing, poetry seeks the melody of nature amid the noise of the dictionary, then, picking it out like picking out a tune, it gives itself up to improvisation on that theme.

What did I do now?' It was getting to the point where she didn't know any longer, but she was certain it couldn't be proper. 'Don't waste sugar,' she improvised. 'I'm not wasting it; I'm drinking it,' May countered.

Shh, May,' Felicity said soothingly, glancing behind her. She absolutely did not want Rafe to come out and say something stupidly noble. They were on their own - again - and they would simply have to make do.

There are a few times when the songs that are written, the poems that are written, the plays that are written, come alive. By accident you fall onto a stage-set put aside for a tragedy for the lesser gods, and you utter words that were in the script written in the leaves and in the grass for some heroic cast.

Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan.

I never had a mentor. I was forced to make myself up as i went along.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

al jazz como un modesto ejercicio de liberación

Writing is improvising sitting down. K.B.Brege

What the books don't tell you is, there's a sixteenth way. You can use it when you've got nothing; no stuff, no men and nobody to lead them.

Violetta: Didn't you even run any tests? Tarvek: With what?! I came in here in a bedsheet!

Did you see that band out there? They weren't reading music. You know, if you can play without music, pretty soon you're gonna think you can sing your own song.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.