Keith Jarrett Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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

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

  Keith Jarrett

  Silence, Sound, Jazz

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

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Thinking, Jazz

• Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

  Keith Jarrett

  Music, Art, Jazz

• 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 tunes!

  Keith Jarrett

  Tunes, Band, Jazz

• ... 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.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

• If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

  Keith Jarrett

  Player, Jazz, Ifs

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