Amy Sedaris Quotes

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

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

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

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

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

What makes jazz different is that you can't predict it, it's all about freedom. Just when you think you know what you're going to hear there'll be a left turn, a jazz musician will change it up.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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.

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

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

There's no formula.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

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.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.