Chance Quote by Keith Jarrett

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

— Keith Jarrett

What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are maybe, what,…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.

— Chris Gethard

With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say, 'Oh, I…

— Fred Willard

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

When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you someplace. To…

— John Popper

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

— Robert Fripp

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a…

— Matt Walsh

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity.…

— Reggie Watts

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion…

— Kat Edmonson

I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out…

— Matt Besser

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

— Teddy Wilson