Keith Jarrett Quotes

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.