Improvised Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated… — Steve Carell
The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a… — Michele Flournoy
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child… — Bill Gates
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. — Fred Frith
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. — Wislawa Szymborska
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. — Henry James
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. — A J P Taylor
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it. — Derek Bailey
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is… — Yehudi Menuhin
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and… — Joe Zawinul
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only… — Eberhard Weber
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an… — J F C Fuller
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short… — Robert Higgs
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do… — Mose Allison
Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised. — Arthur Hiller
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. — Robin Williams
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought,… — Bradford Morrow
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation… — Wynton Marsalis
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. — John Lothrop Motley

Who Wrote These Improvised Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 48 Improvised Quotes, led by these top contributors: