Top Improvisation Quotes
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Miroslav Vitous
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.
Brian McKnight
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
Mike Figgis
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch 
62% of people like this quote
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Miroslav Vitous
61% of people like this quote
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.
Brian McKnight
59% of people like this quote
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel
55% of people like this quote
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
Mike Figgis
55% of people like this quote
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
Jan Hammer
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Carson McCullers
54% of people like this quote
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.
Tim Meadows
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Popular Improvisation Authors
Paul SimonKen BurnsDavid AntinMose AllisonStanley CrouchChuck MangionePeter TorkVincente MinnelliMartin ScorseseSimon PeggFranz LisztLeo OrnsteinAnn BeattieMike FiggisDouglas Wood
Harvey KeitelSatyajit RayGuy RitchieMartin ShortSally SchneiderMiroslav VitousPatrice LeconteEvan ParkerEberhard WeberGeorge ShearingLars von TrierMichael BayBrian McKnightJan HammerPeter Wright
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