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Keith Jarrett [1945-0] American

Rank: 102
Composer, Pianist

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis.

Music, Romantic

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Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.	Music	101
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.		102
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.		103
I am a romantic, I admit it.	Romantic	104
One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.		105
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.		106
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.		107
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.		108
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.		109
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.		110
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.		111
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?		112
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.		113
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.		114
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.		115
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.		116
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.		117
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.		118
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.		119
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.		120
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.		121
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.		122
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.		123
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.		124

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