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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. -- Fred Frith
I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is. -- Andy Partridge
My first movie was totally improvised. -- Damien Chazelle
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised. -- Larry David
I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish. -- Martin Freeman
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge. -- Martin Short
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. -- Fred Frith
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. -- Patti Smith
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. -- Tina Fey
Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show. -- Nick Swardson
On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way. -- Cary Fukunaga
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. -- Lars von Trier
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. -- Mose Allison
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines. -- Ravi Shankar
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. -- Ravi Shankar
I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. -- Robin Williams
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. -- Derek Bailey
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. -- J. F. C. Fuller
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. -- Saffron Burrows
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more. -- Michael Keaton
There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way. -- Steve Carell
Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. -- Olivia Thirlby
When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all. -- AnnaLynne McCord
I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well. -- Trevor St. John
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. -- Francois Furet
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. -- John Lothrop Motley
That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart. -- Eoin Colfer
I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised. -- Zooey Deschanel
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least. -- Mose Allison
I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it. -- Jamie Lidell
Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised. -- Arthur Hiller
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. -- Germaine Greer
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. -- Henry James
Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities. -- Michael G. Williams
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. -- Robin Williams
Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it. -- Hiromi
I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera. -- Gene Wilder
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. -- Abel Ferrara
The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day. -- Pope Francis
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it. -- Derek Bailey
Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along. -- Tobsha Learner
Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised. -- Christoph Waltz
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art -- Wynton Marsalis
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. -- Bill Nighy
So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them. -- Gena Rowlands
I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that. -- Paul Greengrass
The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out. -- David Salle
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down. -- Steve McQueen

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