Feels Quote by Andy Daly

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like…

— Harvey Pekar

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses:…

— Charlie Haden

It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it.

— Jillian Bell

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

— Killer Mike

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes…

— Patti Smith

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

— Adam Lambert

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

— Meg Wolitzer

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

— Mose Allison

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in…

— Bob Newhart

...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…

— Robben Ford

I just like to write and then perform.

— Bo Burnham