Jazz Improvisation Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Improvisation Quotes & Sayings
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I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
— Douglas Adams
To say good-bye. I wasn't there to tell her how much I
— James Patterson
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
— Ahmad Jamal
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
— Jan Garbarek
Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
— Larry Bird
Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.
— Vaclav Havel
Successful startups are just like jazz bands, masters of improvisation marching to syncopated beats
— Mark Anthony Peterson
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
— Samuel Johnson
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
— Henri Matisse
Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.
— Doc Childre
We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.
— Jack Hyles
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
— Ken Burns
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
— Sonny Rollins
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
— Cecil Taylor
deserve my thanks, simply because they help
— Nicholas Sparks
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
— Mose Allison
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
— Wayne Shorter
You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.
— Frederick Lenz
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
— David Antin