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Posted: October 3rd, 2009, 6:38 am
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
"Improv ruined the best years of my life."
-Ace Manning
Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 2:25 pm
by pipingirish
The prologue to Stephen Nachmanovich's book "Free Play" called A New Flute is brilliant. I'd recommend it along with the entire book.
"In the myth of the flute player, when he plays for approval, plays for prestige, plays to meet the expectations of his teacher or to avoid shame, there is always something lacking. But when he has to nothing to gain and nothing to lose, then he can really play." -Stephen Nachmanovich
"The bottom line is that if you want to have success, then what you do is get out of your own bullshit and you exist for someone outside of yourself...Focus on your partner. I swear to you that's how you do this" -Martin de Maat
Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 5:12 pm
by kbadr
It's surely not originally from this, but we watched The Twilight Zone movie last night and Scatman Crothers had an awesome quote.
"The day we stop playing is the day we start getting old. "
Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 5:21 pm
by KathyRose
kbadr wrote:It's surely not originally from this, but we watched The Twilight Zone movie last night and Scatman Crothers had an awesome quote.
"The day we stop playing is the day we start getting old. "
Sounds like the "Kick the Can" episode. Sunnyvale Rest Home.
Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 5:47 pm
by kbadr
KathyRose wrote:Sounds like the "Kick the Can" episode. Sunnyvale Rest Home.
Yeah, that's the one.
Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 6:14 pm
by Zac Carr
This is a pretty good one for those who find spiritual respite in the arms of long-form improvisation.
"It is the religion that I subscribe to because it is the only thing I've found that doesn't ask you to sublimate some part of yourself."
-T.J. Jagadowski, from a class in Summer 2008
Posted: December 29th, 2009, 9:57 am
by Marc Majcher
"It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again."
--Diane Arbus
Substitute... you know.
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 7:48 pm
by scook
"Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work."
- The Wire
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 11:45 pm
by bradisntclever
scook wrote:"Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work."
- The Wire
soooo goood.
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 9:04 pm
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
was listening to the Neverwhere audiobook, and this phrase describing instruments at the Floating Market stuck in my head...
"...improvised, improved upon, improbable..."
Posted: April 12th, 2010, 2:39 pm
by Asaf
"Comics say funny things. Comic actors say things funny."
- Ed Wynn
Posted: April 12th, 2010, 3:41 pm
by Asaf
Someone posted this on YESand.com
It is hard to believe that Bruce Lee is not talking about improv.
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Posted: April 13th, 2010, 11:11 am
by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell
i love that interview. there's actually a lot of passages in Tao of Jeet Kune Do that apply nicely in the same way to improv...or, really, to any kind of performance or art.
Posted: June 30th, 2010, 10:26 am
by Asaf
I was talking with Susan Messing recently and she dropped this gem:
"If you're not having fun, YOU'RE the asshole."
We are bringing her out in October by the way.
Posted: July 11th, 2010, 2:32 pm
by Jeff
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong