Improvisation Quotes
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
— Carson McCullers
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
— Demetri Martin
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
— Richard Holbrooke
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.
— Stephen Colbert
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
— Clint Eastwood
We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'
— Amy Landecker
Genius is supposed to be 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.On the other hand, catering is 99% perspiration and 1% improvisation. — Elizabeth White
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
— John Burnside
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
— David Pye
Composition is selective improvisation.
— Igor Stravinsky
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
— Sonny Rollins
Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.
— Ingmar Bergman
Creativity is improvisation
— Simon Silva
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.
— Anneliese Van Der Pol
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
— Ferreira Gullar
Composition is frozen improvisation.
— Igor Stravinsky
Life is improvisation.
— Tina Fey
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.
— Thomas Lennon
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
— Christian Marclay
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
— Sally Schneider
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
— Marc Maron
I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.
— Erika M. Anderson
I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.
— Drake Doremus
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
— Victor Hugo
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
— Jan Garbarek
Improvisation has never been my strong point.
— Scarlett Johansson
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
— Emma Thompson
Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.
— Jason Bateman
You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
— Patti Smith
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
— Patrice Leconte
It is when we are knocked down that we learn the most about standing up. We stop trying to be perfect.
— Amy Lisewski
I love improvisation.
— Nora Dunn
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
— Leo Ornstein
I've always been into improvisation.
— Tommy Chong
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
— Cornelius Cardew
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
— Henri Matisse
Ever fresh the broad creation,A divine improvisation,
From the heart of God proceeds,
A single will, a million deeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
— Harvey Keitel
When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation.
— Stephen King
People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
— Francois Hollande
Improvisation is a compositional method.
— Evan Parker
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
— Andrea Bocelli
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
— Jan Garbarek
In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.
— Kevin Hart
There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.
— Marc Evan Jackson
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
— Edward Abbey
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
— Gore Vidal
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
— Richard M. Nixon
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
— Martin Short
Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.
— Bobby McFerrin
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
— Yoshi Wada
Every night was improv.
— Kliph Nesteroff
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
— Bernard Sahlins
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
— David Antin
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
— Vincente Minnelli
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
— John Travolta
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.
— Yehudi Menuhin
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
— Ken Burns
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
— Doc Childre
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
— Sonny Rollins
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
— Christoph Waltz
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
— Cecil Taylor
The unexpected is our normal routine. Commander Riker
— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
— Billy Crystal
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.
— Ryan Adams
Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation.
— Katie Kacvinsky
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
— Carl Reiner
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
— Arnold Schoenberg
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
— Paul Simon
For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.
— Stephen Colbert
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
— Mose Allison
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
— Wayne Shorter