Quotes About Improvisation

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no 'normal' person would do.

An audience will remain interested if the story is advancing in some sort of organised manner, but they want to see routines interrupted, and the action continuing between the actors.

Wide-eyed students see everything in a positive light, and huge energy can be released. They'll seem less afraid of the 'space' around them, and they're likely to stop 'judging themselves'. Remove defences in life and you increase anxiety: remove them onstage and anxiety diminishes.

Charlie Watts's drums on "Street Fighting Man" are from this little 1930s practice drummer's kit, in a little suitcase that you popped up, one tiny cymbal, a half-size tambourine that served as a snare, and that's really what it was made on, made on rubbish, made in hotel rooms with our little toys.

It just came, tripping off the tongue, then and there. When you're writing this shit, you've got to put your face in front of the microphone, spit it out. Something will come.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.

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

I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

Because there was no expectation that I'd be right on any of this, I had simply said what came into my head. I thought I was making it up, creating it. More likely, I was calling it up, discovering it.

I work in situations where random events happen. I can't forbid them to happen. I can only make allowances for them and deal with them when they occur.

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he'd never seen one before.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar.»

Para vencer, la planificación por sí sola no basta. Uno debe improvisar.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar.» Yo improvisaré.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar. a

You are makeshift.

Tenía la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar.

Qui nessuno è superiore a te, improvvisiamo tutti

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played... We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy.