Quotes About Spontaneity

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action. . . . By taking no action is not meant folding one's arms and closing one's mouth. If we simply let everything act by itself, it will be contented with its nature and destiny. (12)

Only in a spontaneous utterance is there real, uncalculated evidence of enlightenment.)

Fuck, it's hot in here." He put the guitar down, stood up, whipped his shirt over his head and tossed it to the floor. Then he pulled off his belt like D'Artagnan drawing a sword...

I want to walk beside you in the drizzle and say you can move in with me tonight, right away, even though this time they'll probably evict me and although I'm moving out in three weeks anyway

Life was invented for kids. But then we all grow up, and society imposes filters that block the joy of silliness and sponging up pointless little things that make childhood the magic time for which it is widely known.

Serge's definition of total happiness: Florida, a full tank of gas and no appointments.

Actually an impromptu mini-master plan, not to be confused with the fleeting notion, half-baked idea, or emergency room spin-story for a masturbation mishap.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

There are no rules in live television.

The '80s really were - talk about no rules. People just did whatever they wanted; they could look however they wanted. There was just a lot of bigness and brightness.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

A live album is a no-brainer.

Nobody can hold me back when it's time to play.

I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens.

Normality is boring.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.