Quotes: Spontaneity

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The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Simon Hoggart

English journalist and broadcaster

Spontaneity has its time and its place.

Arthur Frank Burns

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

Jan Hammer

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Rem Koolhaas

Dutch architect (1944-)

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)

There’s a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

Larry David

But I really like hosting, I think it’s a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I’m funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

Garry shandling

American comedian (1949-2016)

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it’s the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

Austin Peck

American actor

Once people see this ‘Unplugged,’ I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate… I want you to see another side of me, that’s free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

Alicia Keys

American singer

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