Key Quote by Keith Jarrett

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

— George Russell

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while,…

— Kim Edwards

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

— John Abercrombie

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had…

— Quincy Jones

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

— Katey Sagal

“Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other words, the…

— Michael Pilhofer

Music is the crystallization of sound.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you…

— Matt Haig

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn