I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a… — Joey Harrington Copy Share Image
Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. — John Dewey 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
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. — Henry Threadgill 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
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
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Copy Share Image
There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase… — Thomas Bangalter 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
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty. — Doc Childre 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
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
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't… — M. Ward 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
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
