“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers. — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward,… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I tell absolutely everybody: you must take an improv class. You have to be able to think on your feet. You have… — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
We started off in improv and sketch comedy, and with improv the most important thing is to listen and make sure you're… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic. — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be… — Oscar Nunez Copy Share Image
The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience.… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again.… — Mick Napier Copy Share Image
In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I've done a few roles in the past where people got quite worried when I started drifting away from what was written… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
