Improvisation Quotes

“When I'm playing, I'm trying to get to a place where I'm not thinking about it.”

“It's the stuff that's not in the script that makes a movie.”

“Free improvisation is not a style, it is a way of dealing with the unpredictable.”

“You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing, you're not playing.”

“For me, the goal is always to be in the moment.”

“The nice thing about improvisation is that you can do it anywhere. And you can do it with anybody.”

“One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?”

“Improvisation is the art of being unselfconsciously self-conscious.”

“A jam is a conversation.”

“I'm trying to deal with abstraction and the subconscious in a very raw way.”

“The music tells you what to do.”

“when you're improvising, you're not in control.”

“The points don't matter.”

“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

“I'll play it and tell you what it is later.”

“My ideal is to be able to be spontaneous within a frame.”

“The goal is to get lost.”

“I'm trying to make a case for a kind of music that doesn't have a narrative basis, that has a more abstract basis.”

“I love 'Reno 911!' because it's completely improvised.”

“The trick is to surrender to the flow.”