Quotes About Improvisation

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.

you say the right thing at the right moment. But you have no business knowing it ahead of time because as surely as you know it consciously, you start to improve on it and ruin it.

I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of improvisation and hearsay learning.

He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, "Body and Soul.

So what's the plan?' 'Why do people ask me that? Do I seem like a person who could make and then keep plans?

a man who invented his life story day after day.

All our differences and similarities are vast and rich - their interplay is the fabric of all relating. It's hard to invent rules out of such complexity; we improvise as we learn about each other.

The only thing that held it together the previous summer was baling wire, cheap used parts, and cussin' that would fry the hair out of a frog's nostrils.

When life gives you lemons, make chocolate chip cookies and make the whole world wonder what you've been up to.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Ä°nsan yaÅŸam?n?n 'doÄŸaçlamas?n?', hiçbir ÅŸey bitmemiÅŸ bir ezgi kadar iyi anlatamaz. Ya da eski bir adres defteri kadar.

That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say.