Pete Carroll

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

American Coach

Harvey Pekar

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.

American Writer

Paddy Considine

Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

English Actor

Ronaldinho

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Brazilian Athlete

John Cale

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Welsh Musician

Guy Ritchie

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

British Director

Kyle Massey

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.

American Actor

Harvey Keitel

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

Ana de Armas

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

Cuban Actress

Clint Eastwood

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Used when something unexpected occurs, requiring an immediate and unplanned response.

Unpredictable Moments

Though often associated with humor, improvisation applies to any impromptu situation.

Not Just Comedy

Implies creating or responding without any set script or guidelines.

No Written Guide

Frequently used in artistic contexts to describe spontaneous creative expressions.

Performance Art

While common in jazz, improvisation is present in almost all music genres.

Jazz and Beyond

Highlights the ability to conceive ideas swiftly and act on them without delay.

Quick Thinking

Recognizes improvisation as a skill that can be developed and not just an in-the-moment act.

Impromptu Talent

Differentiates between rehearsed performances and natural, spontaneous reactions.

Natural vs. Prepared

 I'm going to show you a clip now of the very first improvisation session that we had. It was a really extraordinary moment. Just me and four astonishingly gifted disabled musicians. Normally when you improvise -- and I do it all the time around the world -- there's this initial period of horror, like everyone's too frightened to throw the hat into the ring,

Charles Hazlewood:...

 Improvisation theater, just like science, goes into the unknown, because you have to make a scene onstage without a director, without a script, without having any idea what you'll portray or what the other characters will do. But unlike science, in improvisation theater, they tell you from day one

Uri Alon: Why truly...

 We need to control just those aspects that are critical, like the structural, the thermal, the acoustical properties embedded in the form. But otherwise, improvisation is welcome and is provoked. And the moment of construction is still a moment of design and a moment of celebration

Stunning buildings made...

 like a desperate improvisation artist responding to the combined screams of a million toddlers at once. There are real people trapped within these systems, and that's the other deeply strange thing about this algorithmically driven culture, because even if you're human,

The nightmare videos of...

 learn from our improvisation and moral will is on mind by an incessant appeal to incentives that destroy our desire to do the right thing and without intending it by appealing to rules and incentives we are engaging in a war on wisdom let me

Our loss of wisdom -...

 where are the reference points it was a journey that took me through jazz improvisation seaman variation and eventually to composition it also brought me into collaborations with many musicians from all around the world as I

Music as a refuge PIPE...

 will always think of jazz when I encounter it I can give you one cool example and it has to do with improvisation so what an improviser has to do is spontaneously create something cool while the music is going on while

The Music of Physics PIPE...

 to maximum effect. Design, the art of organizing the world of things. Mediation and improvisation also assume a special place in this new pantheon. Quantitative reasoning attains its proper position

Liz Coleman's call to...

 And the family was united. And it seemed on the road to some sort of a decent life -- a happy ending to a story involving wise improvisation from a wise judge.

Barry Schwartz: Using...

 is one of the most impressive creatures improvisations and for that reason come girls I'm definitely on the fifty sixty you magnificent