Improvisation Quotes
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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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
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
Tcheky Karyo
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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
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.
Amy Poehler
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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
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So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.
Alex Timbers
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I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Vincente Minnelli
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Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.
Miguel Zenon
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I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.
Wayne White
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Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Ahmad Jamal
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I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.
Sufjan Stevens
