Quotes about Improvisation

Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise. Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Though I have an idea about the climax, it always changes when we start shooting.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Gosh, my own podcast, Las Culturistas,' is so unstructured and loose. There's no preparation that goes into it. It's just about plugging in and playing.

I don't like scripts.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling. . . . [We must] play down our longing for certainty, accept what is risky, and live by improvisation and experiment.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.