Quotes about improvisational (16 Quotes)



    Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

    Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

    Yet other artists and culture mavens say that the city has always swayed to its own meandering rhythm and will somehow find a way to keep following its riffing, improvisational instincts. To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress, ... Lady Marmalade.

    I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.





    That whole improvisational aspect really excites us, ... It's so edgy because it's so in the moment, and anything can happen. It requires you to be so engaged the entire time. You can't drift off and just play your part because you'll get lost. We seem to thrive on that edge. In the beginning, we rehearsed more, but the band is not known for its polished, rehearsed arrangements.

    Gary is awesome, he's amazing, ... The music in the movie alludes to jazz, bebop and pop but has an improvisational feel and he did an amazing job with just a few minutes.


    It's a natural process ... The result is essentially a great song-oriented white soul group with fully realized improvisational tendencies, closer to what Entertainment Weekly Magazine calls 'the scene's answer to Steely Dan.'


    Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

    My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

    The idea is to showcase each member of the band's improvisational skills. So we're making a lot of stuff up, ... With six guys going at once, it gets pretty raucous at times. We mix it up, though.



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