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“I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go, ‘OK, I’ve had enough of that improvisation, I’ve had enough of those short comedy bits. Tell me a story, tell me a more complex story, something that lasts and maybe has a little more meaning to it.’ Don’t ever look at what’s happening now; look at what’s coming next.”

People Thinking Looks Littles Enough Stories Lasts Young Next Bits Steps Comedy Happenings Complexes Honestly Improvisation Had Enough Next Steps

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.”

Kind Stuff Lines My Own Study Fields Walking Jazz Technique All Kinds Rhythm Bass Improvisation

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.”

Love Enough Age Fall Acting Products Lucky Stuck Nine Improvisation

Author:Cassie Steele

“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.”

Made School My Own Class Teach Musician Direct Jazz Faculty Orchestra Improvisation Ensemble Rochester Jazz Improvisation

Author:Chuck Mangione

“As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.”

People Years Stories Young Used Actors Community Company Youth Theater Prison Seven Clubs London Technique Access Hospitals Estates Units Housing Seven Years Improvisation Offenders

Author:Jenny Downham

“If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.”

Ifs Individual Teach Environment Permit Improvisation

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.”

Form Mines Strict Improvisation

Author:Michael Haneke

“Life is improvisation.”

Inspirational Life Is Improvisation

Author:Tina Fey

“As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”

Personality Essentials Concerned Jazz Invention Swings Improvisation Jazz Improvisation

Author:Mose Allison

“Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing”

Art Knowing Not Knowing Improvisation

Author:Mick Napier

“The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.”

Authority Score Jumping Arbitrary Improvisation Jumping Off

Book:Cornelius Cardew: A Reader

Source: Cornelius Cardew: A Reader

“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.”

Made Certain Actors Process Clear Materials Needed Made It Plot Improvisation Discussing Impart

Author:Mike Figgis

“Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.”

Mind Too Much Void Spontaneity Improvisation

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.”

Politician Believer Prize Improvisation True Believer Dodgers

Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.”

People War Purpose Peace Demand Clarity Improvisation Cadence Clarity Of Purpose

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.”

Writing Humor Audience Fronts Improvisation

Author:Carl Reiner

“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.”

Thinking Way Happens Certain Rooms Conversation Hollywood Agents Tea Improvisation Love Always

Author:Ann Beattie

“What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.”

Want Play Happens Creative Something New Improvisation

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.”

Ifs Knows Facts Helping Certain Successful Amount Structure Musical Improvisation Improvising

Author:John Cale

“I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table or sometimes I follow him, sometimes he follows me. I had a lot of treats in my pocket. We worked with Omar Von Muller, the dog trainer. It was very easy because it was a big movie.”

Wells I Can Sometimes Bigs Speak Easy Dog Treats Tables Pockets Improvisation Follow Me Trainers Big Movie Omar

Author:Jean Dujardin

“I love improvisation.”

Improvisation

Author:Nora Dunn

“The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.”

Elements Jazz Improvisation Jazz Improvisation

Author: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.”

Reason Problem Seems Impossible Music Business Improvisation

Author:Jan Hammer

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