Top 24 Quotes by Keith Jarrett

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

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

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

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

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

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

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.