Quotes by Keith Jarrett - Page 1

I am a romantic, I admit it.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Admit
Romantic I Am Am
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I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Critics
My Own
Critic
Merciless
Onstage
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Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Art
Music
Form
Jazz
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Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Arise
Silence
Silence Is
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Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Can Do
Tunes
Tune
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I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.
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The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Thinking
Undercover
Way
Practicing
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Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Creativity
Humanity
Moving
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I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Language
Piano
Speak
Learned
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Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Bmw
Way
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Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Chance
Minutes
Musician
Chance Always Never
Minute
Musicians
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I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Electric
Metallic
Mouths
Taste
Thinking
Mouth
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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Gone
Happens
Jazz
Simple
Present
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I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Music
Jazz
Thinking
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If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Jazz
Silence
Sound
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If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Body
Pieces
Play
Your Body
Ingrained
Piece
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Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Music Your Own
Emotions
Head
System
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If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Ifs
Jazz
Player
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Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Attention
Novices
Would Be
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One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Knows
One Thing
Want
Reveal
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When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Band
Electric
Planets
Separation
Two
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I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Garage
Littles
Rooms
Studios
Above
Except
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When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Band
Jazz
Tunes
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I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Artist
Believe
Tasks
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When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Sound
Stage
Strange
Streets
Hum
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I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Electric
Heart
Ideas
Not Talking
Player
Presentation
Skin
Sell
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I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Broccoli
Eating
Electric
Ideas
Keyboards
Musical
My Own
Plastic
Sound
Tolerate
Toxic
Itself
Musical Ideas
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If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Long
Play
Sound
Enough Long Will
Alien
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Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Keys
Play
Sound
Theory
Turns
Window
Music Always Sound
Push
Theories
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I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Chance
Drastic
Musician
Should
Time Chance Always
Minute
Musicians
Occurs
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You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Space
Awareness
Focused
People
Thinking
Tree
Leaves
Spaces
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We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Art
Conscious
Consciousness
Creative
Harder
Losing
Media
Vigilant
Remain
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If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Should
Silence
Sound
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I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Music
Bmw
Player
School
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... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Musician
Player
Taken
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It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
Keith Jarrett / Composer
Clever
Sorry
Voice
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