Improvising

THE Hawaiian people have been from time immemorial lovers of poetry and music, and have been apt in improvising historic poems, songs of love, and chants of worship, so that praises of the living or wails over the dead were with them but the natural statement of their feelings. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I thought, while am at it, I could also share one of the outcomes of what I use to kill my evenings at home currently, namely improvising on top of self played acoustic guitar loops which are getting mangled in GleechLab. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Arne Moll, 7 February 2009, 11.11: Frits, I thought you meant remembering and playing (fixed) music rather than composing or improvising, which is of course something completely ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was surely "improvising" at the black sites from beyond what the OLC memos authorize. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's like doing a couple of versions of something or just kind of improvising little changes to the melody and just singing, you know, in a way that feels good. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, Dave, did you already have a lot of it put together, and did you guys just start kind of improvising, like this sounds really good? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The more discordant aspects of Deerhoof's style have long held traction with a certain kind of improvising musician, like the three who banded together to make "Electric Fruit," an arrestingly unsettled new album on Thirsty Ear. ❋ By NATE CHINEN (2011)

In addition, the flute material consists of a collection of shorter units which can be played in any sequence, as the player decides, and sometimes repeated, so that's another element in 'improvising' the relation of the two pieces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It didn’t feel too crazy at that point, but then he’s standing over the mirror and kind of improvising it, and then obviously it becomes progressively crazier when you see him do that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We rented a hotel room where we could meet and make phone calls and began improvising. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

I was improvising jazz and composing love songs on the piano. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

But Glasgow 2011 represents jazz of many persuasions, including the subtle improvising of pianist Kit Downes (Glasgow Art Club, Wed), the powerful avant-funk of Tommy Smith, (Stereo, Wed) and the virtuosic postbop of trumpet maestro Terence Blanchard (Old Fruitmarket, Thu). ❋ Unknown (2011)

Hell if you got Cameron to direct a Twilight movie it would be far superior than the movies that have been out (but you can't), he'd probably end up improvising half the movie though and cutting out all of the edward/bella staring contest scenes. ❋ Unknown (2010)