Masterpiece Quote by David Grubbs

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation.…

— Eberhard Weber

At a certain point, I started playing improvised music. After a couple of years of this, I did a little bit of analysis and…

— Kevin Drumm

If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen.…

— Hamid Drake

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act.…

— Vivian Campbell

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic…The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing…

— Derek Bailey

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes…

— Zooey Deschanel

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

— Andy Partridge

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

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be…

— Dave Brubeck

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

— Fred Frith

Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean…

— Christoph Waltz

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

— Flea