Improvisation Quotes

• 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

• Improvisation has never been my strong point.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Strong
  • Point
  • Improvisation

• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • Expectations
  • Music Industry

• I've always been into improvisation.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Improvisation

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Improvisation

• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Tennis
  • Jazz

• I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

  

  Cassie Steele
  • Love
  • Age
  • Fall

• I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Term
  • Improvisation

• I love improvisation.

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Improvisation

• I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Training
  • Actor
  • Theater

• Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Acting
  • Challenges
  • Scary

• To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Characters
  • Improvisation

• There's more improvisation, and it's a little bit louder live.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Live
  • Improvisation

• The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Listening
  • Improvisation

• I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Real
  • Song
  • Kind

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