I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even…

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

— Dan Aykroyd

For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're…

— Albert Brooks

Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all…

— David Sanborn

Maybe it's because improvisational people have the same kind of understood language when you're working together. It really only took, like, maybe an hour...feeling…

— Eugene Levy

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to…

— John Cale

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising…

— Herbie Mann

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work…

— Marcus Miller

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

— Daniel Stern

In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces.…

— Tori Amos

Sometimes when you start improvising on stage, which I do a fair bit of, obviously you haven't planned it. But to be honest, it's…

— Frank Skinner

I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the…

— Michael Hersch

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're…

— Tina Fey

I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious…

— Scot Armstrong

In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group…

— Bill Hader

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

— Leo Ornstein