... 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… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
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 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)
