Improviser Quotes
You have to know composition to be a good improviser. - Roscoe Mitchell
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. - Maynard Ferguson
That certainly didn't hurt. But I like it because I know they're all going to be solid improvisers and it's gonna be a good show. And it's not the same [old] thing. - Mark Sutton
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. - Derek Bailey
Michael is a great actor with a lot of range and could not only give us a lot of warmth and heroism, but could give us a lot of comedy, because he was a great improviser. - Don Hahn
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. - Camille Paglia
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. - Tina Fey
I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave is in some ways, he's still as powerful as he's ever been when he sits down at the piano. - Michael Moore
I am an improviser... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised. - Joe Zawinul
Beethoven was probably better known as an improviser until people started paying attention to his symphonies. Liszt, taking Hungarian folk songs and making them into these orchestral piano fantasies. Bartok used the raw building blocks of popular music as the way he set up major pieces of art. And then Stravinsky would lift them whole cloth. - Christopher O'Riley
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