Improvising Quotes

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No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. — Christopher Walken
My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton,… — John Zorn
THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding… — William Butler Yeats
Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising. — Jonathan Stroud
Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. — Gary Burton
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried… — Violante Placido
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising. — Stephen Colbert
Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor. — Seth Numrich
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
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story. — Jim Rash
Improvising political dialogue is not easy. — James Nesbitt
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with. — John Ratzenberger
I love improvising. — Lasse Hallstrom
When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording… — Tina Weymouth
You're just sort of searching for this hing and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since… — John Abercrombie
We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people. — Tom Bergeron
A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a… — Sally Schneider
Self reliance is a state of fortune and weath the key to heart and happiness and being over coming advirsity and oppression adapting to and… — TO BE ME
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

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