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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

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion. — Mark Twain

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew

After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground. — Garth Ennis

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

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. — Adam Gopnik

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. — Franz Liszt

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

You can't move mountains by whispering at them. — Pink

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it! — Art Tatum

I didn't have a role model when I was younger. — Andy Cohen

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds. — Steve Lacy

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it. — Halsey

And then she walked out of my life forever. Too bad she was hitchhiking. I should have picked her up. — Jarod Kintz

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. — Yoshi Wada