There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance. — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Salman has a great sense of humour. His improvisation is very good. His show '10 Ka Dum' on Sony TV is hilarious.… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you're not in the improv scene and you're standing back watching your… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
You can do a whole scene in acting without ever checking in to what the other guy is saying - it's not… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts 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
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 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
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and… — Jason Mantzoukas Copy Share Image
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
