Improvisation Quotes
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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
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I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.
Ryan Adams
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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
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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
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Peter Wright
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
Isabelle Huppert
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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel
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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
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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
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I love improvisation.
Nora Dunn
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There's more improvisation, and it's a little bit louder live.
Eric Johnson
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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