Quotes and Sayings about Spontaneity
"Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business."
- Chuck Barris
(Related: Business, Spontaneity)
"The way that I live my life is on spontaneity."
- Melanie Brown
(Related: Life, Spontaneity)
"Spontaneity has its time and its place."
- Arthur Frank Burns
(Related: Time, Spontaneity)
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Effect, Job, Light, Literature, Originality, Rest, Spontaneity, Youth)
"I like Vegas for its spontaneity."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Spontaneity)
"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
- Larry David
(Related: Life, People, Jokes, Sense, Spontaneity, Talk)
"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."
- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
(Related: Curiosity, Musicians, Spontaneity)
"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
- Hermann Ebbinghaus
(Related: Act, Consciousness, Present, Spontaneity, states, Will, Years)
"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
- Terence Fisher
(Related: Danger, Loss, Preparation, Spontaneity)
"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Pleasure, Spontaneity)
"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish."
- Charlie Haden
(Related: Art, Jazz, Musicians, Passion, Spontaneity, Will)
"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone."
- Jan Hammer
(Related: Music, Passion, Spontaneity)
"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."
- Donal Henahan
(Related: Musicians, Spontaneity)
"The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral."
- Simon Hoggart
(Related: Party, Spontaneity, Washington)
"Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired."
- Alicia Keys
(Related: People, Spontaneity, Want)
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
- Rem Koolhaas
(Related: Advertising, Spontaneity)
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
- Rollo May
(Related: Death, Creativity, Being, Childhood, Passion, Spontaneity, Youth)
"Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are."
- John McLaughlin
(Related: Spontaneity)
"Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people."
- Austin Peck
(Related: People, Honesty, Causes, Comedy, Spontaneity)
"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
- Maurice Ravel
(Related: End, First, Spontaneity)
"There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity."
- Kenny Rogers
(Related: Wisdom, Gain, Spontaneity, Trade)
"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: People, Actors, Being, Spontaneity)
"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."
- George Saunders
(Related: Community, Literary, Spontaneity)
"But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone."
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Funny, Love, Strength, Spontaneity)
"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."
- Lusia Strus
(Related: Control, Actors, Balance, Spontaneity)