Evan Parker Quotes

Improvisation is a compositional method.

Evan Parker

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• ...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Waiting

• You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Writing
  • Composition

• Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Writing
  • Audience
  • Improvisation

• Composing is improvisation slowed down.

  

  Wayne Shorter
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Improvisation

• I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Picture
  • Eye
  • Various

• We are God's productions, His compositions.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Composition
  • Productions

• It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Want
  • Improvisation
  • Theme

• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Composition
  • Greeks
  • DIssolved

• In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

  

  William Albert Allard
  • Color
  • Photography
  • Composition

• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Authority
  • Jumping
  • Improvisation

• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Instrument
  • Comfort Zone
  • Improvisation

• My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Composition
  • Vocation

• All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Words
  • Actors
  • Conversation

• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Society
  • Child
  • Imagine

• Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Spring
  • Songs
  • Improvisation

• Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Writing
  • Composition
  • Spots

• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Trying
  • Analysis
  • Composition

• In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Theory
  • Proof
  • Composition

• Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Painting

• Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Yoga
  • Run
  • Rocks

• The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

  

  David Bowie
  • Character
  • Ancient

• The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Artist
  • Discovery
  • Work Of Art

• Improvisation is a compositional method.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Composition
  • Improvisation