Improvisation Quotes

169 quotes by 148 authors

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group… — Greg Thomas
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a… — Peter Capaldi
I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was… — Cassie Steele
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this… — Chang-Rae Lee
My whole life has been one big improvisation. — Clint Eastwood
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of… — Alan Arkin
In comedy, my strengths are improvisation. — Kevin Hart
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious. — Anneliese van der Pol
One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such… — Damien Chazelle
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition… — Micky Dolenz
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan… — Lars von Trier
We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did. — Peter Tork
With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting… — Carrie Brownstein
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay
For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough… — Cheryl Hines
I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was a little girl.… — Cassandra Wilson
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse
The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. — Brian Alger
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard… — Tim Meadows
There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so… — Simon Pegg

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