You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
I like routine. It enables me to improvise.
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.
My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
Those are the rules. To improvise in a movie with other people, when they're following a script, everybody has to know what's going on. I think a line or two we might change. Certainly, I do. But I wouldn't call it improvising. I'd call it fudging the lines.
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.
It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.
. . . I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going on, per se - it's more like riding a wave. and I know how to stand on the board
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.
