Quotes About Improvisation

I'm a great jazz fan.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I've always loved jazz.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

John Hughes loved improvisers.