Improvisation Quotes
Improvisation Quote of the day
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.
Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
