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... 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.

Keith Jarrett's Popular Quotes

I am a romantic, I admit it.

- Keith Jarrett

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…

- Keith Jarrett

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%…

- Keith Jarrett

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

- Keith Jarrett

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

- Keith Jarrett

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

- Keith Jarrett

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

- Keith Jarrett

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

- Keith Jarrett

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

- Keith Jarrett