Improvising Quotes
Improvising Quote of the day
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.
I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'
I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.
I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.
The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.
As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.
Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.
I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.
In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.
The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.
When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.
In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.
I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.
If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.
I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.
