Improvisation Quotes


You're getting a genuine female voice in an improvisation. I bring to it a great deal as an actress because I'm scripting myself. If you've got men writing for you, conceivably they're not showing the whole range of what a woman can be, and that can be big. - Christen Sussin


You cannot take away the fact that we're a fantastic live show band. No matter what anybody has to say about your recordings, I think people are pretty surprised sometimes when they come to see us that we not only have such a great body of songs to play for them but also we indulge in improvisation so much that the songs actually take on a life of their own from night to night. We never really repeat ourselves. - Victor DeLorenzo


Yeah, I've always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it. - John Doe


With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive. - Carrie Brownstein


When we talk about how improvisation works, we explain that it's like a pizza. Everyone gets to put a new topping on it, but it's all on the same crust. - Monika Herzig


When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. - Eberhard Weber


We're lucky, at the beginning of the year, if we know where it starts. It really has become more and more of an improvisation. I think that's part of what gives the show its energy. We paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out of those corners. - Howard Gordon


We were actually making news. He told each of us to cover a different subject and then find something that's germane and pitch it. It was improvisational acting and it was great. - David Strathairn


We wanted to try to see if we could take something as traditionally structured as a half-hour TV comedy format and actually bring improvisation to it. - Fred Goss


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