Improvise Quotes

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.