Improvisation Quote by Keith Johnstone

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can…

— Derek Bailey

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It…

— Jamie Lidell

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

— Bernard Sahlins

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

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing…

— Peter Capaldi

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing…

— Jimmy Knepper

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

— Lily Collins

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do,…

— Brian Eno

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