Improvise Quotes

112 Improvise quotes by 106 unique authors

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. — Carter Burwell
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the… — Bear Grylls
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's… — Chad Smith
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his… — Robert Greene
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words — Berenice Bejo
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it… — Jack Prelutsky
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn… — Jon Pareles
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've… — Bill Murray
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane. — Adam Pally
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. — Joy Bryant
I do not improvise in heels. — Amy Poehler
The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL. — Steve McNair
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
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. — Annie Dillard
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. — Itzhak Perlman
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival… — Rebecca Solnit
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare… — Gary Burton
I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love… — Sharlto Copley
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you… — Fred Frith
I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got… — Kathryn Hahn
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to… — Nick Kroll
When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there. — Chip Heath

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