Own Quotes by Keith Jarrett

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

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

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

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

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

— Keith Jarrett

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

— Keith Jarrett

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

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

— Keith Jarrett

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

— Keith Jarrett

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

— Keith Jarrett

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

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

— Keith Jarrett