Keith Jarrett quotes

Keith Jarrett is an American composer, pianist, and improviser renowned for his innovative contributions to jazz and classical music. His solo piano concerts, particularly the Köln Concert, are considered landmarks in modern music. He has influenced generations of musicians with his expressive style and improvisational mastery. Here are 22 of his quotes:

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. (Keith Jarrett)
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work. View quote
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I am a romantic, I admit it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it. View quote
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If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? View quote
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I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. View quote
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Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. View quote
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I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. View quote
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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. View quote
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I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage. (Keith Jarrett)
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. View quote
Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

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Occupation: American Composer
Born: May 8, 1945
Quotes count: 22