
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been
improvising together since we were kids. Literally. —
Ty Burrell

Symphony musicians are not trained in
improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. —
Gunther Schuller

I was
improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. —
Pete Fountain

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of
improvising your life. —
William Bolcom

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of
improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. —
Robert Englund
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum. —
Ikue Mori

Yeah,
improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody. —
Bill Hader

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an
improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me. —
John Dieterich

I love
improvising on the spot. I like that pressure. —
Lauren Lapkus

As an
improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business. —
Stephen Nachmanovitch

The idea of just
improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story. —
Jim Rash

I improvise therefore I exist! —
Ljupka Cvetanova

When you're
improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful. —
Mark Duplass

If you do
improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process. —
Giovanni Ribisi

They are pretty good at
improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison —
Robert Dallek

If you're too hung up on
improvising 'correctly', you will almost always fail. —
Craig Cackowski

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because
improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet. —
John C. Reilly

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there
improvising. —
Harold Ramis

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start
improvising. —
Billy Crystal

A person
improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. —
Leo Ornstein

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't
improvising. —
Wynton Marsalis

In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you are." Old habits die awfully hard. —
Ava Gardner

I've always loved
improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it. —
Jamie Lidell

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called
improvising. —
Jonathan Stroud

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the
improvising. —
Stephen Colbert
Improvising political dialogue is not easy. —
James Nesbitt

I'm
improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least. —
Mose Allison

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just
improvising. —
St. Lucia

Growing up playing jazz and
improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music. —
Stephen Bruner

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always
improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me. —
Chris Tucker

My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and
improvising a great medley. —
Matthew McConaughey

If you have a child, you're
improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies. —
Sarah Jessica Parker

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and
improvising a dancing path. —
Gabrielle Roth

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what
improvising offers you. —
Marc Evan Jackson

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly
improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out. —
Caroline Shaw

If you're
improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight! —
Daniel Stern

I think that if you're
improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers. —
Zach Woods