Improvisation Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together. — Eugene Levy
Improvisation is a compositional method. — Evan Parker
There's always some room for improvisation. — Satyajit Ray
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a… — Mike Leigh
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. — Patrice Leconte
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new… — Jack McBrayer
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. — Dave Brubeck
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have… — John Cale
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table… — Jean Dujardin
I love improvisation. — Nora Dunn
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. — Jan Garbarek
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes… — Jan Hammer
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next. — Bobby McFerrin
There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation. — Allan Dwan
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. — John Travolta
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams
I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that… — Ryan Adams
To work from nature is to improvise. — Georges Braque
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my… — Henri Matisse
Composition is selective improvisation. — Igor Stravinsky

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