Communication Quote by Allan Holdsworth

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

— Jamie Lidell

...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

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

— Ali Farahnakian

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

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse…

— Vijay Iyer

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'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating…

— Jade Bird

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of…

— Chris Thile

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

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your…

— Neil Peart

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

— Ryan Adams

Very early on, I started improvising. I was more interested in the music that came out of me than any music I heard.

— Johann Johannsson