Active Quote by Derek Bailey

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because…

— David Steinberg

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he…

— Alvin Curran

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in…

— Bernard Sahlins

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I…

— Alice Lowe

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts…

— Dianne Reeves

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to…

— Lucien Bourjeily

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

— Sonny Rollins