Keith Jarrett Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I am a romantic, I admit it.”

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

“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.”

“I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.”

“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.”

“I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.”