Improvisation Quotes

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.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

There's always some room for improvisation.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Composition is selective improvisation.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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

Improvisation has never been my strong point.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

I've always been into improvisation.

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

Improvisation is a compositional method.

To work from nature is to improvise.

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

Life is improvisation.

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

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

Composition is frozen improvisation.

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

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

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

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

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

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

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

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

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

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

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

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

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

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

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

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.

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.

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

I love improvisation.