So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic. — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.” — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. — Lee Konitz 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
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
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 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
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'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
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
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
“In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
As an improviser you need to experience the moment- and that includes everything in the moment. Observe the people around you-the bandleader,… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv,… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class.… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“I’ve been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There’s really no failing in improv. You just go on to the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise,… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an… — Rufus Reid Copy Share Image
I think improvisation is a skill, that if you learn it at a really young age then you can use it for… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. — Vincente Minnelli Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of… — Danielle Ellison Copy Share Image
