Improvisation Quotes · Page 10

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

— Lily Collins

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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

— John Travolta

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

— Ali Farahnakian

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think…

— Anonymous

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

— Matt Besser

I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is…

— Michael Shannon

When you’re good at improv, even when you’re going to deliver somebody else’s line that they’ve written, you’ve got to nail it.…

— Chris Jericho

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate…

— Carrie Brownstein

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the…

— Jamie Lidell

We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on…

— Anna Boden

A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential…

— David Gordon Green

I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself…

— Rob Riggle

It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to…

— Jherek Bischoff

Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to…

— Vince Vaughn

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The…

— Derek Bailey

With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees…

— Alison Moyet

I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play…

— Horace Silver

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none.…

— Christopher Guest

Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating…

— Josh Linkner

It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire…

— Greg Egan

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

— Ferreira Gullar

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being…

— Keith Johnstone

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

— Drake Doremus

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

— Lucien Bourjeily

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

— Arnold Schoenberg

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger…

— Simon Pegg

Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality…

— John Popper

With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but…

— Adam Granduciel

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

— Brian Henson

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

— Derek Trucks

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience…

— Matt Walsh

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck…

— Walter Benjamin

“Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.”

— David Pye