Improvisation Quotes

• All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Words
  • Actors
  • Conversation

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Music
  • Ability
  • Improvisation

• 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.

  

  George Shearing
  • Improvisation
  • Disciplined
  • Retention

• There's always some room for improvisation.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Improvisation

• 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.

  

  William Golding
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Path

• I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

  

  Will Kimbrough
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Improvisation

• Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

  

  David Pye
  • Design
  • Improvisation
  • Provisional

• The minute you make a mistake - that's improvisation!

  

  Barry Harris
  • Mistake
  • Improvisation

• I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Natural

• Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Inspiration
  • Concept
  • Influences

• I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

  

  EMA
  • Song
  • Improvisation
  • Messing

• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Actors
  • Certain
  • Clear

• I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Improvisation

• Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There's not much room for improvisation.

  

  Danny Carey
  • Working
  • Songs
  • Improvisation

• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Walking
  • Stuff
  • Lines

• If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

  

  Anneliese Louise van der Pol
  • Master
  • Hilarious
  • Improvisation

• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  

  Elliott Sharp
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Compositions

• When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

  

  Aaron Zigman
  • Idea
  • Composition
  • Improvisation

• There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

  

  Simon Pegg
  • Script
  • Improvisation
  • Marks

• Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

  

  Ali Farahnakian
  • Ideas
  • Practice
  • Improvisation

• Improvisation is a compositional method.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Composition
  • Improvisation

• I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Kind
  • Benefits
  • Improvisation

• Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.

  

  Steve Zissis
  • Words
  • Energy
  • Improvisation

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