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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
“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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements… — Eberhard Weber 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
As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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