I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.”
“Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing”
“Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.”
“Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.”
“Improvisation is the power of spontaneous observation.”
“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
“Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.”
“Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.”
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.”
“Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.”
“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”
Source: Jazz Violin
“Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and proactive for what's going on. Someone gives you something - a lot of actors are a little shut off, so they're just doing, "This is my character, these are my lines, I'm going to just send it to you then you send whatever you're sending." Improvisation teaches you to really be listening.”
“Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].”
“Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.”
“Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!”
“Improvise. Write your own damn story.”
“Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.”
“Improvisers are unaware of what is about to happen until it occurs, spontaneously creating as they go along.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Improvising is copying the line that is already written in your karma.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“Improvising is playing a game with no plot rules which middles you as fuck.”
“Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.”
“Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.”
“Improvising was, after all, a skill she'd been practising.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Improvisors connect for the same basic reason you and your friends connect. Say you meet someone. You like something about them and they like something about you. Your mutual interest begets mutual play. Play begets cooperation and mutual understanding, which, trampolined by fun, becomes love. Love is the highest form of play.”
Source: Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
“Improvvisamente sono quasi accecato dalle mille possibilità che mi offre una trama, mi toglie quasi il respiro.”
Source: Il momento è delicato
“Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.”
“Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.”
“Imprudent people accumulate adversaries, intelligent people accumulate acquaintances, and enlightened people accumulate friends.”
“Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.”
“Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.”
“Impudent wench! He indulged her, did he? And not just the regular kind…but shamelessly.”
Source: My Darling Duke
“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.”
Source: Brave New World
“Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.”
“Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”
“Impulses are hard to come by these days.”
“Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.”
Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.”
“Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.”
“Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something you
are.”
Source: Wanderlove
“Impulsive passion please set me free.”
“Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. "What was that for?" "Just seemed like the thing to do," she said. "Well, feel free to do it more often," he encouraged. "I assure you I won't mind.”
Source: Shades of Gray: A KGI Novel
“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
“Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.”
“Impulsivity is its own form of evil.”
“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”
“Impulsivity seems to be the first sign of ignorance.”
“Impunity has become the very foundation in which systems of corruption are built.”
“Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.”