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.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
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