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The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

— Bill Dixon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Flea

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?

— Thomas Bangalter

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

— Mick Fleetwood

I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.

— Bat for Lashes

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

— Alexis Korner

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

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

— Bonnie Hunt

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

— John Burnside

Music is the strongest form of magic.

— Marilyn Manson

✗Opposing Perspectives

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

— Josh Homme