Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to…

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly…

— Russell Lynes

Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of…

— Laufey

One of the most important things you need when you're doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts with the…

— Tony Kanal

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

— Marina Abramovic

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

— Frank Zappa

My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!

— Loren Gray

Music is about the performance.

— Vanessa Mae

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the…

— Sophie

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn…

— Lukas Foss

If the lecture is good, then everything is too smooth. That's the same in music: if the performance is too good, you really don't…

— Werner Heisenberg

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were…

— Joe Swanberg

In acting, one should look at the film in totality. Improvisations should only be made keeping in mind the limits of a character. Always…

— Aparshakti Khurana

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