#visa

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#cannot #consistently #defend #envisaged #euro

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

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#gates #god #had #kremlin #oh

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

#could #dealing #ethnic #ethnic groups #groups

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room. ↗

— Martin Short

#get #improvisation #material #much #possible

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#animal #collectivism #envisage #i #individualism

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#doing #feedback #front #i #i can

Improvisation is terribly haphazard. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#improvisation #terribly