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
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.
taken player disease
... 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.
school player bmw
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.
except studios
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
jazz present
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
musician chance should
I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
silence arise silence-is
Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
band tunes 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!
thinking
I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.
bmw way
Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
play long sound
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.
sound strange stage
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.
ideas musical keyboards
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.