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Top 30 Keith Jarrett Quotes (2025 Update)

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Silence is the potential from which music can arise.”

1. “Silence is the potential from which music can arise.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.”

2. “Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.”

— Keith Jarrett

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

3. “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

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.”

4. “I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Once we’re inside a tune, we can do anything with it.”

5. “Once we’re inside a tune, we can do anything with it.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?”

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

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.”

7. “Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Ideally, I’d like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.”

8. “Ideally, I’d like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical – some sort of physiological – effect on the listener, so he doesn’t have to hear that sound again.”

9. “If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical – some sort of physiological – effect on the listener, so he doesn’t have to hear that sound again.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.”

10. “Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.”

11. “I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don’t need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we’re sorry about.”

15. “It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don’t need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we’re sorry about.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.”

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

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “When you’re up against an electric band like that, it’s like you’re on two separate planets.”

18. “When you’re up against an electric band like that, it’s like you’re on two separate planets.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I am a romantic, I admit it.”

20. “I am a romantic, I admit it.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “When I joined the band I didn’t know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn’t know any of the tunes!”

22. “When I joined the band I didn’t know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn’t know any of the tunes!”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.”

23. “I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.”

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

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.”

25. “The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “I’m my own most merciless critic onstage.”

26. “I’m my own most merciless critic onstage.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it’s not etched in your system.”

29. “Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it’s not etched in your system.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “If I’m not a jazz player all the time, I’ve at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.”

30. “If I’m not a jazz player all the time, I’ve at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.”

— Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett Quote: “Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.”

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

— Keith Jarrett

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