Quotes About Improvisation

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Humans had to make do with what they could.

Logan battered to the end of 'Started Out With Nothin', drove in silence for a minute, then launched into 'Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies'. Making up half of the words as he went along.

But in a fit of inspiration he'd fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

Soccer is the most improvisational sport. There are no set plays. And in soccer, as in improv, you are trying to find the flow.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

When your hands are cold, and you're hitting with old, low-quality irons - my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft - you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a really strong, solid script to go back to if you're brain dead and tired.