Top 55 Spontaneity Quotes

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

There are definitely some set topics I go onstage with and want to talk about, but there’s also an element of improvisation and spontaneity that I like to bring to each performance and talk about uniquely in that room.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.

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.

We know somebody’s got to win, somebody’s got to lose, but aside from that, there’s a lot of latitude and spontaneity and free-wheeling that I think would make it a much better product. I’m not knocking the product on RAW or Smackdown or NXT; these guys are good, but they’re following a television format.

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I’ve derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.

There might be a different model for a literary community that’s quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

Hopefully I’m bringing to rock n’ roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I can’t lose my 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.

It’s good to be prepared, but spontaneity is very important – just to let yourself go and let it be whatever it is.

I don’t like spontaneity; there you go. I’m wary of it.

A lot of my albums that I’ve done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It’s before you mess with it too much – you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

But I like some chaos on the sets which brings in spontaneity both in the cast and the crew. If the actor knows his or her spot, where the light comes from and what lines to say, it’s a rehearsed performance.

I’m a big believer in spontaneity.

There’s nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

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.

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.

It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they’re always wanting to participate in something, and I don’t often have that element in me.

I don’t like to know exactly what I’m going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

I’m all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Nobody’s perfect, but my dream gal would be intelligent. That’s really sexy to me. And kindness is also really, really important. And spontaneity – being open to whatever comes.

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.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

Ah… romance to me is spontaneity. It’s not diamond earrings; it’s a bunch of daffodils that’s freshly picked from the field.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you’re going into the studio five days a week?

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit ‘record’ so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I don’t like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don’t play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You’re allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

I will never find people like the Italians… there is this spontaneity, this living life with a smile, to its fullest.

I’m still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you’re writing a long play, make adjustments along the way – all kinds of adjustments.

In the past, we never really had that kind of spontaneity on record. When you start touring, you play songs in a certain way and then I start to feel like it’s tough to really get lost in my playing.

Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you’re performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

I don’t outline at all; I don’t find it useful, and I don’t like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

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.

I’m not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it’s about feeling and energy and spontaneity – that’s a really big part of who I am.

Films are artifice. We’re telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call ‘the social Web’ or ‘Web 2.0,’ a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I’ve never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

I’m a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

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.