Improvisation Quotes · Page 5

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

— Jim Rash

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

— Michael Bay

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

— Jane Lynch

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

— Pauline Oliveros

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

— Paul Simon

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!

— Barry Harris

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

— Victor Hugo

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

— Martin Short

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's…

— Richard Holbrooke

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

— Isabelle Huppert

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

— Yehudi Menuhin

“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers…

— Victor Hugo

Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you…

— Kyle Massey

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it…

— Jimmy Knepper

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

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

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to…

— Jack McBrayer

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements…

— Evan Parker

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality…

— Michael Snow

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

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take…

— Jenny Downham

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and…

— Elliott Sharp

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…

— Paul Harding

I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about…

— Zach Woods

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They…

— Henry Threadgill

I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply…

— Amy Poehler

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

Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,…

— Patti Smith

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

— Kristen Wiig

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

— Larry David

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

— Peter Tork

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

— J. B. Smoove

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

— Don King

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete…

— Jane Jacobs