Exercise Quote by Terry Bozzio

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

— Roscoe Mitchell

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your…

— Neil Peart

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.

— Robert Ben Garant

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing…

— Christopher Walken

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

I've never been good at improvising.

— Terry Jones

When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.

— Reggie Watts

When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.

— Craig Cackowski

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking…

— Robben Ford

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to…

— John Cale

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