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Keith Jarrett
American
Composer
Born:
May 8
,
1945
About
Always
Music
Own
Think
You
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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.
Keith Jarrett
You
People
Awareness
Think
Tree
Focused
Between
Like
Know
Look
Leaves
Spaces
Them
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
Keith Jarrett
Music
Emotions
Own
System
Out
Head
Your
One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
Keith Jarrett
You
Yourself
One Thing
Know
Also
Learn
Reveal
Stop
Where
Want
Thing
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Keith Jarrett
You
Simple
Gone
Jazz
Happens
Present
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
Keith Jarrett
Music
Think
Say
About
Only
Know
Cannot
Right
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Keith Jarrett
Music
You
Would
Piece
Ingrained
Body
Your
Your Body
Why
Play
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
Keith Jarrett
Stage
Never
Know
Get
Gonna
Really
Play
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Keith Jarrett
Once
Inside
Anything
Tune
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
Keith Jarrett
Speak
Language
Piano
Learned
Up
Grew
I am a romantic, I admit it.
Keith Jarrett
Admit
Am
Romantic
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.
Keith Jarrett
Time
Musicians
Unless
Drastic
Minute
Something
Never
Always
Occurs
Off
Stop
Realized
Should
Chance
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.
Keith Jarrett
Art
You
Creative
World
Losing
Remain
Through
Come
Accept
However
Get
Any
Getting
Them
Used
Vigilant
Many
Media
Harder
Conscious
Things
Consciousness
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
Keith Jarrett
Own
Critic
My Own
Onstage
Merciless
Most
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
Keith Jarrett
Work
Think
Way
About
Undercover
Practicing
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.
Keith Jarrett
Knowledge
You
Strange
Stage
Exactly
Like
Audience
Sound
Very
Hum
Streets
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