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
I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.
thinking taste mouths
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
thinking way undercover
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
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.
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!
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.