#improvise

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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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?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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

— Charles Darwin

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Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

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Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. ↗

— Fred Frith

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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. ↗

— Kenny G

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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

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Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box. ↗

— Robert Redford

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