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 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 pieces body play 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 music player school If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. Keith Jarrett jazz silence sound Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate. Keith Jarrett creativity humanity moving 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 tasks artist believe Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless. Keith Jarrett novices would-be attention I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. Keith Jarrett jazz music thinking 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 space people thinking One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop. Keith Jarrett one-thing knows want 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 media creative art ... 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 musician taken player Silence is the potential from which music can arise. Keith Jarrett silence-is arise silence 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 voice sorry clever 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 keys sound play I am a romantic, I admit it. Keith Jarrett Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it. Keith Jarrett tunes can-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 stage strange sound 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-own critics
