Bedroom Quote by Gary Burton

When we used to do improv, you'd have to learn how to listen and contribute and not talk over each other and learn timing,…

— Sal Vulcano

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses:…

— Charlie Haden

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to…

— John Cale

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.

— Zach Woods

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

— Eric Bachmann

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

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

— Damien Chazelle

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

— Mose Allison

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when…

— Steven Price

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

When you improvise alone, you don't risk a lot, but doing an improvisation when you are two is even more difficult because you need…

— Sylvie Guillem

I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.

— Dacre Montgomery