To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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The canvas empty and expecting
The canvas empty and expecting
Awaits the stroke of colours pastel in their shades.
Through Improvisation we compose through intuition
Through Improvisation we allow Imagination a realm
Within which she may rule.
Her boundaries marked with borders
Outstretched within a frame
She seeks to refrain from desire.
She seeks to construct her sanity.
Yet with every breathe we fulfil the will to live,
Every time we respire we tire more so of the past
As we desire more so each day the moment to last.
To know we are alive and to appreciate the moment
And to appreciate each other it’s all we can ask of ourselves.
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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.
quote by Carson McCullers
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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.
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There's always some room for improvisation.
quote by Satyajit Ray
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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Improvisation is a compositional method.
quote by Evan Parker
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
quote by Allan Dwan
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I prefer improvisation because you don't have to learn any lines.
quote by Jennifer Coolidge
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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
quote by Martin Short
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
quote by Paul Simon
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
quote by Jan Garbarek
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
quote by Michael Bay
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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
quote by Harvey Keitel
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I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
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