Early Quote by Johann Johannsson

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

— Carter Burwell

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to…

— Duke Ellington

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

— Lil Yachty

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

— Mabel

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

— Jamie Lidell

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore…

— Neil Young

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that,…

— Flume

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking…

— Robben Ford

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that…

— Margaret Cho

I followed my gut and my subconscious told me the kind of music I wanted to create. But it wasn't easy.

— Freya Ridings

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

Music was a way for me to almost speak things into existence before they even happened and to build confidence.

— Darren Waller