Improvisation Quotes - Page 2

Composition is frozen improvisation.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

I love improvisation.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

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

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

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

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.

I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.