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Improvisation Quotes

"You need to have an idea of what you are going to do, but you have to be open to the serendipity of the moment"

"My life and career have been a big improvisation"

"In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed"

"You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail"

"I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find your perfect city or your perfect house right away."

"I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while, I'll be listening to the radio and I say, I think I might have written that."

"I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on"

"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards"

"To take what there is and use it without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived."

"My comedy is different every time I do it. I just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks."

"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk"

"Necessity is the mother of invention"

"There's no steady way forward to the future we see so we swerve and sway end up someplace new"

"Improv is mostly what it involves, creating on the spot"

"I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way"

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