Answers Quote by Jimmy Knepper

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things…

— Mike Nichols

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

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

— Kurt Elling

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It…

— Jamie Lidell

Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have…

— Jimmy Herring

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on…

— Sonny Rollins

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because…

— David Steinberg

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

— Sonny Rollins

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or…

— Bobby McFerrin

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

— Yehudi Menuhin

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

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton