David Lowery Quotes

There is spontaneity to my work.

My style is very spontaneous.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

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

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

I do not believe in planning.

Somebody who doesn't understand my directing style could be pretty taken aback by it if I start going off the schedule and focusing on something because I'm inspired in the moment.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.

Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

I never have fixed subjects that I discuss on stage. I never go on with any particular subjects in mind.

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.