#improvised

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

— John Lothrop Motley

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Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. ↗

— Derek Bailey

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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised. ↗

— Larry David

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I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. ↗

— Mose Allison

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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

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I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. ↗

— Tina Fey

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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

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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

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