Composition Quote by Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

— Wayne Shorter

When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.

— Kurt Elling

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

— Yoshi Wada

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

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

— Roscoe Mitchell

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

— Bernard Sahlins

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

— John Burnside

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

— Pauline Oliveros

Life is improvisation.

— Tina Fey