Quotes About Spontaneity

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Never play anything the same way twice.

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

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