Bands Quote by John Popper

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

H.O.R.D.E. is all about live music.

— John Popper

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse…

— Vijay Iyer

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

— John Burnside

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands.

— John Popper

Bands work in a way where everyone, at some point, has to have a similar idea of how you do things.

— Chris Cornell

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like…

— Chick Corea

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set,…

— Washed Out

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people…

— Chad Smith

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

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by…

— Evan Parker