Improvisation Quotes

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

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

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

“The music tells you what to do.”

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

“The points don't matter.”

“Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter.”

“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

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

“In improvisation, there are no mistakes.”

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

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

“There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.”

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

“I go to the studio and just play. I don’t have a preconceived idea of what I’m going to do.”

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

“Welcome to Whose Line Is It Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter.”

“What I was trying to do was to create a kind of thinking in real time.”

“Most music is metaphor, but non-idiomatic improvisation is not.”

“Improvisation has no stylistic content. It's a process.”