Quotes About Improviser

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Robert Altman was a very jovial guy and obviously a famed improviser and perhaps less effective in post-production, which is like the crystallising process. So I found myself at sea often with him because we'd have conversations about what music is, and in the end, I don't know how interested he was?

I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.