Improvise Quote by Caleb McLaughlin

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

— Billie Holiday

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

— Terry Bozzio

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out…

— Zach Woods

Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote…

— John Medina

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can…

— Hiromi

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing…

— Christopher Walken

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

— Julian Bream

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera…

— James Franco

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the…

— Charlie Haden

When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to…

— Albert Brooks

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking…

— Robben Ford

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

— Christopher Walken