Improvisation Quotations

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

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

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

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

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz 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.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

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

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

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.

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

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

Composition is selective improvisation.

To work from nature is to improvise.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

Improvisation is a compositional method.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

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

I love improvisation.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Improvisation has never been my strong point.

I've always been into improvisation.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Life is improvisation.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

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