Freedom Quote by Gary Burton

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers.…

— Gary Burton

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

When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you someplace. To…

— John Popper

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

— Kurt Elling

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

— Michael Giles

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

— Itzhak Perlman

Independent music gives a musician that chance to narrate their personal journey through music.

— Jubin Nautiyal

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in…

— Adnan Sami

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

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

— Chris Thile

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster…

— Allan Holdsworth

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

— John Burnside