Improvising Quotes

59 quotes by 57 authors

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one… — Steve Carell
I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the… — Novak Djokovic
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum. — Ikue Mori
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as… — John Cassavetes
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. — Robert Englund
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five… — Stephen Root
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was… — Keith Emerson
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when… — Chris Hadfield
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going… — Robben Ford
I think itâ€™s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment… — Charlie Haden
I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late… — Paul Bley
The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the imagination… — Paul Bley
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We… — Gary Burton
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey,… — Shelley Berman
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is… — Pete Fountain
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. — Gabrielle Roth
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that… — Alexis Korner
I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up'… — Keith Johnstone
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By… — Tori Amos

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