Improvisation Quotes - Page 10

• The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

  Lily Collins

  Ideas, Kind

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  Bradford Cox

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

  Michael Snow

  Acceptance, Chance, Film

  Source: offscreen.com

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• Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Creativity, Skills

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

  Sara Zarr

  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Block, Skills, Degrees

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, April 3, 2007.

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• All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Blow, Left Hand, Lefties

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

  Jack McBrayer

  Years, Risk, Trying

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• Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Luxury, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

  Dan Mazer

  Real, Thinking, Term

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feeling involved. It was just the most natural, easy process of making music.

  Alexis Taylor

  Worry, Feelings, Easy

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• I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  Tcheky Karyo

  Trying, Things I Love, Exciting

  "Tchéky Karyo Talks THE MISSING, the Full Arc for His Character, Season Resolution, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 6, 2014.

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• When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was pretty young, and we were doing acting and improvisation. But no, no I didn't go to RADA, I didn't do that. But I do now work with an acting coach, primarily for the initial intellectual connection to the material.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Space, Intellectual, Acting

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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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

  Song, Giving

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.

  Josh Linkner

  Dream, Creativity, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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

  Writing, Significant

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Michael Ian Black wears many hats. He's a stand-up comedian, a comedic actor, he's now a writer-director so he knew how to work with all of us. And furthermore, because so much of his career is based on improvisation he gave us the freedom to do that as well.

  Jason Biggs

  Black, Comedian, Comedic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to guest stars, but I felt as though he was being particularly funny with me, and particularly stretching the boundaries of improvisation. He's such a comic genius. I hate to use that word, because everyone throws it around, but Steve Carell is channeling something.

  Beth Grant

  Hate, Sunshine, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Michelle Monaghan

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Some people have this really clear memory of making that decision, and I don't. My earliest memories of being involved with drama or acting were in elementary school. My sister and I got dropped off at an after-school improvisation class, a time-killer for kids while parents were doing the groceries. I'm 6 years old, and I remember running amok and playing these games.

  Jai Courtney

  Running, Memories, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to execute your ideas and you need a medium. The idea of improvisation is one that many writers fall into, and I improvise a great deal when I'm writing, but there's a structural framework that I'm working around, and that takes more time than the actual writing. Once the characters get to yapping and talking, they'll move from one room to the next, and I just have to make sure that the house is built. That's really hard, that's the kind of thing that sits with you all day long.

  James McBride

  Moving, Fall, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.

  Steve Zissis

  Thinking, Giving, Energy

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is not like making a play, so I guess you can leave some of the work for improvisation when they do the work.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Play, Actors, Demand

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to make eye contact with me, and I'll give them some kind of sign when I think that the song's ending. Or maybe I don't even have to, because they all sort of feel it at the same time.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).

  Michael Snow

  Individuality, Sound, Variation

  Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre (2010). “The Collected Writings of Michael Snow”, p.189, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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