I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
From Keith Jarrett
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
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.
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
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.
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
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.
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