Improvisatory Music Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time. — Tig Notaro

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art. — James Hamilton-Paterson

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples. — Thomas S. Monson

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. — Nicolas Winding Refn

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary. — Keri Arthur

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart. — Marianne Williamson

Sights, smells, temperature changes - all sorts of stuff. We notice it without consciously thinking about it. He says we may not be paying attention, but our brains are recording and processing it all the same, and these ... these observations, or whatever you want to call them, make up a pattern. So if you're good with patterns, the way Mr. Benedict says I am, you can sometimes predict things. — Trenton Lee Stewart

In my books, there is always a prince, and he always happens upon the damsel in the most unexpected places. — MarcyKate Connolly

It was pretty clear who was winning this battle. Even though it wasn't a competition. But part of me felt like it was. Which one of us could survive without the other? — Elizabeth Eulberg

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa. — Trevor Noah

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison. — George W. Bush

My feet aren't seeds so I see no reason to plant them. — Wesley Eisold

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change. — Cliff Martinez

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly ... or like somebody's mother. — Norman Rockwell

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack. — Shania Twain

Grateful Dead performances were by design not consciously planned, often reaching their artistic peak when the collective stumbled upon something stunning, when "the music played the band," as it were. Instead of using set lists, the Grateful Dead chose songs by experimenting together until a pulse, rhythm, phrase, or riff emerged from the group, suggesting a song. Their collective, improvisatory musical works communicate felling like any other artwork. — Steven Gimbel

Bishop on "A Miracle for Breakfast" and Sestina Technique
It seems to me that there are two ways possible for a sestina. One is to use unusual words
as terminations, in which case they would have to be used differently as often as
possible - as you say, "change of scale." That would make a very highly seasoned kind of
poem. And the other way is to use as colorless words as possible - like Sidney, so that it
becomes less of a trick and more of a natural theme and variations. I guess I have tried to
do both at once. — Elizabeth Bishop