Jan Garbarek Quotes

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• Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
• Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
• When we are on tour we also take chances.
• I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
• Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I…
• If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
• The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
• There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
• You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to…
• Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

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