Quotes About Spontaneity

This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.

I've learned from experience not to be too glued to one menu or routine in particular because I never know where I'm going to be and what kind of cuisine it's going to be.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can!

Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.

I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

Half the pleasure of a feeling lies in being able to express it on the spur of the moment, and I let out mine.

It is better to accept any chance that offers itself, and then extemporise a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.

Good," Mapp said. "That's very good. Eat some crabs. Grab Pilcher and smooch him on his face, go wild.

Don't try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity, and love.

There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.

the idea that one can seriously cultivate his own personal freedom merely by discarding inhibitions and obligations, to live in self-centered spontaneity, results in the complete decay of the true self and of its capacity for freedom.

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply.

I long to do wild, passionate things.