He Quote by Lee Evans

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

— Gene Wilder

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously…

— Stan Getz

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm…

— Elmore Leonard

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

— Sam Shepard

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make…

— Wynton Marsalis

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

— Frankie Ballard

“Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance,…

— Donna Quesada

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just…

— Oscar Peterson

Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to make eye…

— Larkin Grimm

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

— Lizz Wright

When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time. You see…

— Remi Aubuchon

“But the Oriental musician has a rough notation which he uses only as a reminder of a melody. He learns music, not by reading…

— Alan Wilson Watts