Improvisational Quotes

37 quotes by 37 authors

When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. — Steven Johnson
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation… — Louis Nizer
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. — John Cassavetes
I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front… — Kathy Griffin
I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment.… — Dane Cook
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. — Paul Simon
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things… — Roberta Smith
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected… — Albert Murray
Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this. — Bae Doona
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will… — Alan Arkin
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. — Diane Sawyer
Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy. — Tom Bennett
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I… — Chester Brown
Im improvisational when it comes to romance. Im not a gifted chef but I made lasagna a couple of nights ago and it was good!… — Zac Efron
Maybe it's because improvisational people have the same kind of understood language when you're working together. It really only took, like, maybe an hour...feeling out… — Eugene Levy
Doing three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there's a switch in your brain that censors you, makes you… — Seth Green

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