Improvisation Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am. — Tina Fey
The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to… — Carlos Gavito
I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about… — Tina Fey
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it. — Christoph Waltz
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think thatâ€™s the next step after people go, â€˜OK,… — Bob Odenkirk
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which… — Miroslav Vitous
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now,… — Chuck Mangione
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young… — Jenny Downham
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — Michael Haneke
Life is improvisation. — Tina Fey
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison
Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the fâ€” youâ€™re doing — Mick Napier
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation… — Mike Figgis
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void. — Victor Hugo
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. — Richard M. Nixon
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience. — Carl Reiner
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood… — Ann Beattie
Improvisation is terribly haphazard. — Leo Ornstein

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