Improvisation Quote by Ahmad Jamal

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example,…

— John Kao

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do in the…

— Laufey

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is…

— Albert Murray

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's…

— Wynton Marsalis

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz…

— John Abercrombie

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another…

— Alan Arkin

“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.”

— Ted Agon

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

— Sonny Rollins

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

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems…

— Ernest Sosa

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill