Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrettis an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth8 May 1945
CityAllentown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
thinking taste mouths
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
tunes can-do
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
two band separation
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
piano language speak
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
player jazz ifs
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
thinking way undercover
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
littles rooms recording-studio
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
silence sound should
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.
keys play keyboards
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.
art media creative
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.
thinking space people
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.
clever sorry voice
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.
emotion
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
critics my-own
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.