Quotes About Improvisation

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

As kids, we were used to playing football with anything that we managed to kick and whenever we got a ball, it was a bonus.

As a kid I was creative.

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.

I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.

You don't plan 'La la la's.' They just pop out. Bowie and Marc Bolan littered many of their songs with 'La la's.'

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.

I find that if you just talk, your mouth comes up with stuff.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

I have found out what it's like to be crazy. It is to stand apart and observe ordinary life all around you with the panic of an actor on stage who has forgotten his lines and his business. What one doesn't realize in ordinary mental health is that daily life is a show. You have to put on a right costume, to improvise right speeches, to do right actions, and all this isn't automatic, it takes concentration and work and a simply amazing degree of control!

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...