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 More Quotes by Keith Jarrett More Quotes From Keith Jarrett If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? Keith Jarrett piecesbodyplay 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 musicplayerschool If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. Keith Jarrett jazzsilencesound Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate. Keith Jarrett creativityhumanitymoving Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless. Keith Jarrett noviceswould-beattention I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. Keith Jarrett jazzmusicthinking 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 spacepeoplethinking One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. Keith Jarrett one-thingknowswant 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 mediacreativeart ... 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 musiciantakenplayer Silence is the potential from which music can arise. Keith Jarrett silence-isarisesilence 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 voicesorryclever I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself. Keith Jarrett thinking 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 keyssoundplay I am a romantic, I admit it. Keith Jarrett Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it. Keith Jarrett tunescan-do 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 stagestrangesound Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. Keith Jarrett emotion I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. Keith Jarrett my-owncritics 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 silenceshouldsound
