Be prepared Quote by Albert Murray

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— 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

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

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

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

— Doc Childre

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

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

— Sonny Rollins

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

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that…

— Charlie Trotter

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do,…

— Brian Eno

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on - in ensemble…

— Cecil Taylor