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To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.
[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.
In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.
I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.
I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you can't break character - at all.
The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no - you have to be interested to be interesting, and your job is to support your partners.
With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but I leave room for improvisation in the studio.
I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.
Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv.
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.