Garbarek Jan Quotes & Sayings

This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people ... The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. — Rumi

What is Valentines? Is it a restaurant name? — Yoseob

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key. — Jan Garbarek

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece. — Jan Garbarek

When we are on tour we also take chances. — Jan Garbarek

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. — Jan Garbarek

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. — Jan Garbarek

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit. — Jan Garbarek

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them. — Jason Mewes

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. — Jan Garbarek

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors. — George Brett

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek

Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!"
"That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top! — Ilona Andrews

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! — Wallace Stevens

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. — Jan Garbarek

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off. — Jan Garbarek