Acoustics Quote by Pauline Oliveros

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It…

— Jamie Lidell

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts…

— Dianne Reeves

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do,…

— Brian Eno

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

— Bobby McFerrin

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

— Pauline Oliveros