Quotes About Spontaneity

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.

My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

As stressful as it can be trying to plan out your moves and think about the race, I think I do better when I'm hanging out with friends and family and just jump in the race track and go for it.

I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.

On stage you're supposed to have fun and play different licks and stretch out. You're not supposed to copy your records exactly.

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

If an idea or opportunity strikes organically, I would do it.

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.

There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.