As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and… — Elliott Sharp 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
Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can… — Philippe Petit 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've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do… — Chris Tucker 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
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
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting. — Tcheky Karyo Copy Share Image
I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you… — Mike Birbiglia 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 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
Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
