Happens Quote by Patti Smith

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

The more you can make a performance seem spontaneous, the better an entertainer you are.

— Soupy Sales

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

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just…

— James Taylor

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and…

— Christopher Timothy

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and…

— Adrianne Lenker

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my…

— Dan Deacon

I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in…

— Bernard Sahlins

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

— Dianne Reeves