Composition Quote by Aaron Zigman

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz.…

— Oliver Sacks

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing…

— Jimmy Knepper

I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the…

— Mark Applebaum

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When…

— Stephane Grappelli

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking…

— Robben Ford

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

— Kurt Elling

It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have…

— George Benjamin

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that…

— Tarja Turunen

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

— John Legend

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano…

— Trey Parker

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

— Boots Riley