Audience Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

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 just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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

— Bernard Sahlins

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

— Steve Lacy

In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe…

— Frederic Rzewski

When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.

— Kurt Elling

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

— Paco Underhill

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

— Sonny Rollins

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

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

— Ivan Reitman