Improvisation Quotes · Page 4

We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'

— Amy Landecker

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

— Ikue Mori

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

— Daniel Stern

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

— Chris O'Dowd

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

— Ed Helms

I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

— Tcheky Karyo

Theatre sports is the best improv training period

— Wayne Brady

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being…

— Keith Johnstone

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

— Ferreira Gullar

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

— Matt Besser

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

— Yoshi Wada

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as…

— Stephen Colbert

Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it…

— John Kao

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes…

— Catherine O'Hara

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and…

— J. Richard Hackman

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it…

— John Zorn

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can…

— DJ Jazzy Jeff

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it…

— Stephane Grappelli

Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that…

— Roy Hargrove

There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time…

— Adam Scott

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert…

— Jeff Bridges

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.…

— Aaron Zigman

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

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase…

— Thomas Bangalter

It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work…

— Seth Rogen

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school.…

— Imogen Poots

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do…

— Hans Matheson

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view…

— Marcus Miller

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

— Kevin Hart

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

— Stephane Grappelli

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

— Anneliese van der Pol

When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.

— Kurt Elling

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

— Clint Eastwood

“That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart.”

— Eoin Colfer

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

— Michelle Monaghan

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

— Bobby McFerrin