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
I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
“Whether personal or organizational, building capacity to effectively deal with change creates resilience, and without exceptional resilience there is no antifragility.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace… — Olivia Williams 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
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
Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing… — Ali Farahnakian Copy Share Image
I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call… — Daryl Hall 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
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
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
It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot… — David Lowery 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
I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
When you’re good at improv, even when you’re going to deliver somebody else’s line that they’ve written, you’ve got to nail it.… — Chris Jericho 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
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it… — Jimmy Knepper Copy Share Image
It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
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