#improvisation

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#area #because #bring #chemical #i

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

I've always been into improvisation. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#been #i #improvisation #into

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

— Christoph Waltz

#hate #i #improvisation #very

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#back #band #cause #chorus #come

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be. ↗

— Jon Brion

#endless #improvisation #means #notes #over

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#face #fails #improvisation #sometimes #works

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#completely #disintegrated #face #improvisational #new

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not. ↗

— George Shearing

#discipline #disciplined #i #improvisation #lot

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first