Improvisation Quote by Evan Parker Download Open image “Improvisation is a compositional method.” — Evan Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improvisation Method
I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity… — Marv Dunphy Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation. — Don King Copy Share Image
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing… — Jimmy Knepper Copy Share Image
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
