Improvisation Quotes

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

I love improvisation.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can cheat the impossible.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.

Every night was improv.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)