Action Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

— Yehudi Menuhin

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

— Sonny Rollins

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

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

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or…

— Bobby McFerrin

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things…

— Mike Nichols

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 the courage to move from one note to the next.

— Bobby McFerrin

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

— Kurt Elling

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

— Yehudi Menuhin

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner