#improvisation

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#fat #head #i #improvisational #skeleton

There's always some room for improvisation. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#improvisation #room #some

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

#cohesive #did #disparate #even #form

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds into a ten-minute performance, a virtuoso display that serve no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artists #improvisation #mocking-birds #music #art

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. ↗

— Evan Parker

#attacks #attitude #between #certain #certain kinds

Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

#improvisation #method

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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I love improvisation. ↗

— Nora Dunn

#i love #improvisation #love

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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#always #certain #conversations #each #happens

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

— Christoph Waltz

#hate #i #improvisation #very