Zitat des Tages von Keith Jarrett:
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
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.
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
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.
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.
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
I am a romantic, I admit it.
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.