#improvise

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#control #determined #even #everyone #five

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#biggest #biggest thing #every #fear #female

It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a little bit, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #bit #dog #easy #especially

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #i #improvisation #improvise #improvising

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#grab #happen #i #improvise #lib

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#good #improviser #know #you

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#everybody #everything #fact #first #improvise

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#improvised #mind #new #single

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#creativity #enemy #everything #guts #imagination

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#felt #find #had #hate #i