Communication Quote by Wynton Marsalis

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse…

— Vijay Iyer

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another…

— Alan Arkin

“In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The musical end…

— Derek Bailey

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity…

— Jimmy Page

Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which…

— Steve Zissis

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

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

— Dan Mazer

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

I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes.…

— Ramin Djawadi

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

— Kurt Elling

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

— Gary Hoey