Able Quote by Eberhard Weber

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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

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

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

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

— Flea

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it…

— Joe Zawinul

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

— John Burnside

There's always some room for improvisation.

— Satyajit Ray

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he…

— Alvin Curran

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of…

— David Grubbs