Brittany Howard Quotes

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

There's always some room for improvisation.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.