Author: Roscoe Mitchell

Quotes

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

- Roscoe Mitchell

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

- Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

- Roscoe Mitchell

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

- Roscoe Mitchell

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

- Roscoe Mitchell

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

- Roscoe Mitchell

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

- Roscoe Mitchell

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.

- Roscoe Mitchell

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

- Roscoe Mitchell

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