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 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 I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. — 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
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 Image
If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate. — 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 music sounds… — 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'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.” quote by Keith Jarrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/151/keith-jarrett-16919_bmw_i-ve-never-heard-anything-wynton-marsali_1148495.jpg)
