Improvisation Quotes

“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.”

“Improvisation is the soul of jazz.”

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

“Improvisation is a huge part of what I do.”

“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

“We were really just flying by the seat of our pants. There was no blueprint. We were making it up as we went along.”

“It's not the note you play that's the wrong note – it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”

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

“The tradition of improvisation is a tradition of invention.”

“We do not read from a script. We do not need a script.”

“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

“There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.”

“I’m an improviser, and I can't do it any other way. It’s the only way I can get anything done.”

“Improvisation is the art of being completely, totally in the moment.”

“Improvisation is composing on the spot.”