Keith Jarrett Quotes

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

  Keith Jarrett

  Moving, Creativity, Humanity

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

  Keith Jarrett

  Play, Pieces, Body

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

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  Silence, Sound, Jazz

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• 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.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, School, Player

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• 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

  Believe, Artist, Tasks

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• Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

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  Silence, Arise, Silence Is

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• Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

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  Would Be, Attention, Novices

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• You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

  Keith Jarrett

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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

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  Tunes, Can Do

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• One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

  Keith Jarrett

  Want, Knows, One Thing

  "There is no plan" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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

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  Music, Thinking, Jazz

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• We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

  Keith Jarrett

  Art, Media, Creative

  "There is no plan" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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• 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 alien as it continues to live.

  Keith Jarrett

  Play, Long, Sound

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

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  Ideas, Musical, Keyboards

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

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  Thinking, Way, Undercover

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• ... 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 poor composer but a great player.

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  Taken, Player, Musician

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• Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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  Music, Art, Jazz

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• Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

  Keith Jarrett

  Keys, Play, Sound

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

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  Sorry, Clever, Voice

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• I am a romantic, I admit it.

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• I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

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  Thinking

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• Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

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  Emotion

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• If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

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  Silence, Sound, Should

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• Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

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  Bmw, Way

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• 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

  Sound, Strange, Stage

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