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
  • Composition

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• 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

• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Expression

• The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts...

  

  Allen Tate
  • Shadow
  • Broke
  • Reaching

• Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Book
  • Independent
  • Wanted

• The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

  

  Michael D. Barnes
  • Beginning
  • Safety
  • Laws

• Improvisation is a compositional method.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Composition
  • Improvisation