Quotes About Improvisation

Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv.

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.

A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.'

I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Ancelotti has allowed us to enjoy the games and also to improvise.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

When I was young, I took classical ballet lessons, but I wasn't very good at it. It was really frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. When I stopped having lessons, I began to dance and improvise, and I felt more comfortable.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

That always makes it fun inside the ring when you know you can work with somebody. You can fly off the cuff while you're in there; you can improvise.

Someone like my father will improvise as much as 90% of the music in concert, but with me it's maybe 10 to 20%. It's sort of the test of how great someone is, the more they can improvise correctly and still be true to the raga they're playing, and still keep it new and fresh the whole time.

I like to improvise.

A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be coming up. There's a lot of freedom and space available as you improvise around the chord changes.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.