(52 quotes found)
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”
Charles Darwin
“There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”
Carson McCullers
“These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
Walter Benjamin
“One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.”
Robert Stone
“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.”
Charlie Trotter
“The process is based on training, lots of improvisation. Before you start somehow you have to establish two things. How the performance sounds and how the performance moves. Once we find the grounds, that gives us a base - it's a long process. Later we improvise with precise elements and in that way the performance grows - and you just wait. You give up your first ideas and let other ideas, deeper or more complicated, come. I'm not easily satisfied with what actors or I produce.”
Grzegorz Bral
“Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,”
Cindy Moore
“We tend to improvise and expand on the songs when we're on stage, and on the last couple of CDs, it was fine to put out something that felt unfinished, because we knew we were going to expand on it live. With 'Stories of a Stranger,' we were focused on how strong each song could be.”
Chris Culos
“That was what got me through. I was able to improvise with what I had.”
Aron Ralston
