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

The moment weighs down on me, threatening to unstitch my seams and expose me to the world. — Rebecca Berto

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. — Chuck Mangione

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work. — Keith Jarrett

Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities. — Marlee Matlin

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

Silence is the potential from which music can arise. — Keith Jarrett

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. — Keith Jarrett

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else. — Alice May

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage. — Keith Jarrett

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

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music. — Keith Jarrett

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

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself. — Keith Jarrett

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. — Keith Jarrett

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him. — Laura Kreitzer

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. — Keith Jarrett

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage. — Keith Jarrett

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. — Keith Jarrett

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

The words of men cannot be trusted, especially men like you! — Olga Goa

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

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain. — Peter Hoeg

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

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

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules, — Lee Clow

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. — Keith Jarrett

Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness. — Georgette Heyer

I am a romantic, I admit 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

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute. — Keith Jarrett

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate. — Keith Jarrett

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice. — Burton Cummings

You must have something in order to give it up. — M. Scott Peck

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. — Keith Jarrett

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. — Keith Jarrett