Improvising Quote by Gunther Schuller Download Open image “Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.” — Gunther Schuller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improvising Jazz Music Musician Style Symphony
“It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.” — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“In a conversation with the master jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Wynton Marsalis, he told me, “You need to have some restrictions in… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition? — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example,… — John Kao Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this-or more accurately, because of this-his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share
You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces.… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight! — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
