Autre Ne Veut Quotes

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

I don't even start singing anything until the mic is on and recording, because my first ideas are usually my best ones. So I'll just press record; I'll freestyle a whole three minutes.

I like to improvise.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

I used to dance around, I used to sing a lot, I remember, and beat box.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.