Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon

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

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
Don King

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

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
Ann Beattie

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Chuck Mangione

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

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
George Shearing

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
Jan Garbarek

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Ken Burns

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Jan Garbarek

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

There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.
Simon Pegg

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
David Antin

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
Allan Dwan

There's always some room for improvisation.
Satyajit Ray

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

They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
Micky Dolenz

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel