I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on -… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
I think that it is important to establish a world of place for the characters in improv and there is nothing to… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
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… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Music was just one of the tools we employed to create excitement. The jazzman’s objective, however, was solely musical: Through his improvisation,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all,… — Marv Dunphy Copy Share Image
I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
“improv and child rearing are not so different. Both are jobs that people volunteer for and complain about endlessly, and they bore… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just… — Ryan Stiles Copy Share Image
Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
