Improvisation Quotes
More Improvisation Quotes
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
(Lula) Carson ne e Smith McCullers— 1951The Ballad of the Sad Cafe ,'The Sojourner'.
But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move.
thomas flanagan— Chapter 3, Stalemate At Lubicon Lake, p. 54
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
john dewey— The American Background, Freedom and Culture (1939)
Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.
van morrison— March 1978 Hot Press Interview by Dermot Stokes
