American - Composer | May 8, 1945 -
I am a romantic, I admit it.
Keith Jarrett
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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.
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I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
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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.
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One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
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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.
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I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
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The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
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