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Improvisation Quotes

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The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
Jane Jacobs

The ever-changing panorama of the city pavement continually offers fresh surprises to behold.
Authors on Improvisation Quotes: Patti Smith Igor Stravinsky Yoshi Wada Satyajit Ray Meat Loaf Kevin Hart Christoph Waltz Leo Ornstein Evan Parker Scarlett Johansson Michael Haneke Henry Threadgill Allan Dwan Georges Braque Edward Abbey Tina Fey Pauline Oliveros Michael Ignatieff Lily Collins Anneliese van der Pol Gore Vidal Carl Reiner Tommy Chong Paul Simon Michelle Monaghan Will Kimbrough Jane Jacobs Franz Liszt David Pye Barry Harris Miles Davis Jherek Bischoff Nora Dunn
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon

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

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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Leo Ornstein

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There's always some room for improvisation.
Satyajit Ray

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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
Miles Davis

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Composition is selective improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky

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You can't make a mistake when you improvise.
Patti Smith

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Improvisation has never been my strong point.
Scarlett Johansson

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Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
Carl Reiner

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I've always been into improvisation.
Tommy Chong

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The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
Keith Johnstone

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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
Demetri Martin

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Improvisation is a compositional method.
Evan Parker

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To work from nature is to improvise.
Georges Braque

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If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.
Anneliese van der Pol

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Life is improvisation.
Tina Fey

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

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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
Christoph Waltz

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Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky

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[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.
Pauline Oliveros

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My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.
Meat Loaf

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In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.
Kevin Hart

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A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.
Michael Haneke

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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

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If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.
Henry Threadgill

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Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
Michael Ignatieff

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The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.
Lily Collins

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I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
Yoshi Wada

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In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
Gore Vidal

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

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I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
Eugene Levy

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You don't want to OD on improvisation.
Patti Smith

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Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
Yoshi Wada

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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt

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Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me.
Jherek Bischoff

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[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
Allan Dwan

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I love improvisation.
Nora Dunn

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Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
Edward Abbey