Quotes About Expression

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

My style is very spontaneous.

I think the first take is best, as you are spontaneous, and after that, it becomes a mechanical thing. I don't believe in second take at all.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

At the time we were all just very young people who wanted to have fun and do pictures in a different way than the old folks did it - make it all more spontaneous and more alive and more natural.

I don't want robots. I want players who are spontaneous.

Whatever it is, music should sound spontaneous, I've derived a great deal of pleasure from playing jazz and having the knowledge of that spontaneity.

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

I've been getting a bit of writing done, a bit of recording done and I just want to get out as much new music as I can before I end up spontaneously combusting.

I'm that dude who will burst into song spontaneously.

I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

My formula is not thinking about what I'm doing; it's about still having fun and making music. I don't go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind - sometimes I'll start with drums, other times I'll start with the piano - but it's all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time.

Generally, I wouldnt spend a lot of time on a solo. Id try to catch something out of the air spontaneously.