I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz…you… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share
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