Elvis Duran Quotes

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

If I'm going to draw something, I don't know the day before what I'm going to draw. It's just very much an interpretation of how I'm feeling that day and what I think is the coolest thing in my brain at that very moment.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

I play as I feel.

So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.

When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

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.

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.