Quotes By Keith Jarrett

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

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

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

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

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

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

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.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.