If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of expressing one's innermost feelings and creativity.
Keith Jarrett's quote suggests that when you are deeply connected to something, such as music, it becomes an integral part of you. The act of playing or expressing this ingrained art form is not just a choice but a natural inclination, urging individuals to embrace their talents and inner creativity rather than holding back.
In practice
A musician might use this quote to inspire a group of students before a performance.
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
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.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity.
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