Keith Jarrett Quotes

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

Keith Jarrett

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• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Real
  • Chicago
  • Real estate

• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • God
  • Family
  • Thank God

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Garry Marshall
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Star
  • Motivational
  • Wagon

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Like

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• I was a bit of a rebel.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Rebel
  • Bit

• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Way
  • Republican
  • Cleaning

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

  

  Christopher Heyerdahl
  • Travel

• The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

  

  Alfred Wainwright
  • Life
  • Hills
  • Spent

• I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Chemicals

• Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • Feet
  • Clay
  • Oddities

• I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

  

  Keith Jarrett