As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and… — Jason Mantzoukas Copy Share Image
Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
When we used to do improv, you'd have to learn how to listen and contribute and not talk over each other and… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
“Let me have two locks of your hair, and help my mother plait them into a bow-string for me. "Does anything depend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to… — Jack McBrayer Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day.… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
“I have a lot of problems with fifteen-minute jazz-funk jams as well. I don’t care about instrumental prowess. I don’t care about… — Matt Thorne Copy Share Image
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,… — Pat Martino 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
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to… — Eugene Levy 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
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
“Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing — Mick Napier Copy Share Image
Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending… — Katy Mixon Copy Share Image
“Can't you improvise? You know, make some loud pounding noises or cause the outer walls to bleed?” — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill.… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Improv is really fun but it's a lot harder to show people your work if they don't come to your show. Something… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
