Improvisation Quote by Pauline Oliveros Download Open image “[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.” — Pauline Oliveros ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Improvisation Life
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it. — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity… — Marv Dunphy Copy Share Image
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation. — Don King Copy Share Image
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing… — Jimmy Knepper Copy Share Image
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image