#improvise

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

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When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

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Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well. ↗

— Chris Kattan

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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. ↗

— Maynard Ferguson

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Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. ↗

— Lee Konitz

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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. ↗

— Patti Smith

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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. ↗

— Fred Frith

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That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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