Arbitrary Quote by Cornelius Cardew

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

— Flea

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints,…

— Ennio Morricone

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too…

— Alejandro Amenabar

I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the…

— David Raiklen

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because…

— David Steinberg

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

— Zoya Akhtar

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are…

— Stephen Hough

When scoring music, the idea is to ensure that your song makes it to the playlist on your audiences' music player and stands out…

— Arjun Janya