Alan Thicke Quotes

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

I'm constantly changing up my show. It's never the same.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

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

I try not to do anything by formula.

I think probably with any performer, but maybe with rock music especially, the audience wants to see the singer being real, and exploring, and not doing a rehearsed routine, so I'm just constantly looking for new things to try. I'm really curious out there, and my curiosity has led me into all kinds of bizarre situations.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I studied structured improv, where you start from one position and see where it takes you. I like spontaneity. If you set yourself up to do the same thing every night, you may not connect as well to a different audience.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

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

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

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

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.