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You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

— Roscoe Mitchell

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

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

— Mose Allison

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your…

— Neil Peart

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer…

— Tatiana Maslany

...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

Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the…

— Shook

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over…

— Mike Leigh

When I'm improvising, I'm out of my head. I've done a lot of projects recently where there hasn't been a script. It's all been…

— Dave Franco

I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea…

— Thighpaulsandra

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing…

— Christopher Walken

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

— Jamie Lidell