Top 386 Improvisation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 10, 2024.
Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.
I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.
Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you can't break character - at all.
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
Ever fresh the broad creation,
A divine improvisation,
From the heart of God proceeds,
A single will, a million deeds.
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.
There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.
I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.
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.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.
Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.
Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.
What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.
I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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.
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
