Music Improvisation Quotes
Collection of top 26 famous quotes about Music Improvisation
Music Improvisation Quotes & Sayings
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I am a human being, not a human doing.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
— Ahmad Jamal
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
— John Burnside
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
— Sonny Rollins
Maybe Holgy's right. Maybe we are all holograms.
— Anna Perera
Speed bumps in relationships are temporary rises in the road that signal you to slow down, step back, and reassess the situation.
— Nicole Huggins
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
— Cecil Taylor
Designers devote their efforts to change.
— Sol Sender
Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
— Cornelius Cardew
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
— Henri Matisse
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
— Sonny Rollins
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.
— Ryan Adams
The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -John Dos Passos
— John Dos Passos
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
— Wayne Shorter
I didn't have a role model when I was younger.
— Andy Cohen
