19 Improvisational Quotes for You to Enjoy

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray

Nature Progress Jazz Musicianship Must Composer Be Prepared Written Simply Performer Execute Truly Score Contribute Expected Improvisational Orchestration Who Rehearsed Prepared Function Competent

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. Amy Tan

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better. Carol Burnett

Funny Better Seen Too Way Kind Favourite About Never He Comedian Him Course Tim Improvisational Anybody Being Skills Conway

I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them. Dane Cook

Work People Try About More Feel Particular Like Well Off Very Improvisational List Going Where Happening Information Region Them Might Show Moment Keep Set

My dishes tend to have a very carefree style: what's ripe at the farmers market or what's in my fridge, even if I'm cleaning out my fridge. It tends to be a very improvisational style. I major in salads, but a loose definition of salad; it can have a real robust skirt steak on top of it off the grill or quinoa or buckwheat or sprouted almond. Darby Stanchfield

Cleaning Style Market Top Definition Out Ripe Steak Tend Tends Major Loose Robust Real Salad Salads Fridge Off Very Improvisational Dishes Grill Farmers Skirt Even Carefree

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them. John Darnielle

Music You Comedy Old Energy Minute Seeing Born About Something Inspiring Songs Most Hear Improvisational Being Substitute Them Why

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity. John Oates

Me Opportunity Gone Immensely Solo More Had Cruise Comfortable Because Improved Improvisational Jam Jamming Place Skills Actually

I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways. Lee Ranaldo

Music Together Space Think Other Distance Ways Those See Abstract Exclude Between Stuff Poles Makes Concrete Hand Lot Very Improvisational Any Interested Interesting Them Should Reason Two

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music. Meshell Ndegeocello

Love Music Time Me Eyes Listening Father First Big Jazz Sax John John Coltrane Record Brown Had Coltrane He Tenor Come Around Clifford Sound Caught Lot Up Bands Improvisational Where Grew Really Illinois Ear Played Player

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater. Roberta Smith

Art Together Eyes Before Sense Distinguishes One Of The Things Something Performance Performance Art Coming Improvisational Quite May Theater Certain Your Things

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime. Stephen Colbert

Work Character You Satire World Political Think Mime Changing Changing The World City Silliest Could Through Generally Know Concerned Does Were Off Chicago Did Improvisational Just Theater Social Things Second Started Second City

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it. Conan O'Brien

Best First Before Think Late Late-Night I Think Television Signed Out Classes Angeles Writer Take Studied First Thing Got Los Los Angeles Years Up Did Improvisational The First Thing Loved Really Show Ever Thing Night

Improvisational Quotes

No more improvisational quotes