Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really… — John Cale Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing… — Mandy Patinkin 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
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
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
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
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 like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music,… — Jan Hammer Copy Share Image
There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that… — Roy Hargrove Copy Share Image
Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes… — Catherine O'Hara Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was… — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
