Quotes About Spontaneity

My wife tells me off as I'm always coming home with either skateboards or guitars.

We just played whatever we could get ahold of. If we were at a party and we had a banjo, a mandolin and guitar or 10 guitars, that's what we played that night.

I make movies based on gut.

I just go with my gut.

You'll never find me in a gym.

I like the gypsy aspect of this business.

I've lived a gypsy life and wouldn't know any other way to live.

I am not a creature of habit.

I love being able to play myself if I fancy, and take myself off as soon as I've had enough.

I'm like a kid, so I try to avoid haircuts as much as possible.

I still feel 18, and I probably act that way half the time.

I do whatever entertains me. If it entertains me to throw flowers halfway across the room, then that's what I'll do.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Camp out in the living room. Spread your blankets and pillows on the floor. Get your Pepsi and popcorn. Pretend the TV is broken and talk like you used to when you were dating. Talk till the sun comes up or something else happens. If the floor gets too hard, go back upstairs and go to bed. You won't forget this evening!

The best joy and beauty are the kinds that are unplanned, and the same is true of painting or poetry. Don't chew at it too much. It's beautiful, and it makes you remember a beautiful part of your life and that's enough.

Like imagination and the body, language rises unbidden.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . . Just be real, and it will be funnier.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

Life is a lot like jazz… it's best when you improvise.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.