Improvisation Quotes
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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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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
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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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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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I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.
Dan Mazer
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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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I've always been into improvisation.
Tommy Chong
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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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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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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
