Composition Quote by Yoshi Wada

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

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

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

— Yoshi Wada

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

— Kurt Elling

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

— Sonny Rollins

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

— Bernard Sahlins

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he…

— Alvin Curran

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens…

— Isabelle Huppert

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

— Dan Mazer

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