Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently.… — Nick Swardson 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
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,'… — Paul Butcher Copy Share Image
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Michael Ian Black wears many hats. He's a stand-up comedian, a comedic actor, he's now a writer-director so he knew how to… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's… — Vijay Iyer 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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
