#improv

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

#belongs #exist #gypsies #improvisation #music

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement. ↗

— Ludacris

#feel #i #i always #improvement #perfectionist

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#am #environment #governance #i #i am

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. ↗

— Elaine MacDonald

#communication #communication skills #confidence #curriculum #effectiveness

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

#direct #eastman #ensemble #faculty #formed

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#conversation #four #i #i do #improved

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

#aware #book #existence #human #human existence

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#comedy #down #drinking #driving #evil

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries