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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

— Eberhard Weber

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

— David Steinberg

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

— Flea

With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.

— John Burnside

There's always some room for improvisation.

— Satyajit Ray

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

— Amy Poehler

What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music.

— Roscoe Mitchell

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

— Andrea Bocelli

✗Opposing Perspectives

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton