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…

— 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…

— Keith Jarrett

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop…

— 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…

— 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…

— Keith Jarrett

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

— Keith Jarrett

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic.…

— Keith Jarrett

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

— Keith Jarrett

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

— Keith Jarrett

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

— Keith Jarrett

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should…

— Keith Jarrett

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

— Keith Jarrett

I am a romantic, I admit it.

— Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

— Keith Jarrett

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician…

— Keith Jarrett

... 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

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

— Keith Jarrett

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any…

— Keith Jarrett

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