George Gilder Quotes

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

I like to work spontaneously.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

I play like I always used to, with no agenda. And, every once in a while, I will play something I really hadn't thought about or even intended to play. And I'll go, 'Whoa! What was that?'

I don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll do.

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.