When you are up against an electric band like that, it's like you are on two separate planets.- Keith Jarrett
We really never know what we are gonna play when we get on stage.
Once we are inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
I am 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.
I do not like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
