Top 100 Jarrett Quotes
#1. My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#2. I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
Chuck Mangione
#3. I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.
Lenny Breau
#4. I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.
Burton Cummings
#5. That's J, E, double F, J, A, double R, E , double T ... I'm double J, Jeff Jarrett!
Jeff Jarrett
#6. The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men.
H.S. Jarrett
#7. On this voyage, you will witness the marvels that this city has brought the world. It
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#8. I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.
Valerie Jarrett
#11. It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
Keith Jarrett
#12. When I was a kid ... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#15. Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
Valerie Jarrett
#16. Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#17. Father Sams, a mirthful shaman, looked at a nighted photograph of actress Lar Park Lincoln beneath his glass of bourbon con hielo.
Jarrett McCall
#18. When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.
Dale Jarrett
#19. Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.
Keith Jarrett
#20. Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.
Dale Jarrett
#21. Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
Valerie Jarrett
#22. American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.
Valerie Jarrett
#23. You can't get a friend more loyal than your dog.
Dale Jarrett
#26. 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
#27. Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
Keith Jarrett
#28. An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#29. We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
Valerie Jarrett
#30. I am an Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith. I am also an American Citizen and I seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself.
Valerie Jarrett
#31. No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.
Christian Jarrett
#32. When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#33. Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#34. 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.
Keith Jarrett
#35. When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#36. Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver.
Jarrett McCall
#37. Comedy is the finest drug, laughter is the best medicine.
D.M. Jarrett
#38. No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
Valerie Jarrett
#39. President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Valerie Jarrett
#40. But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
Valerie Jarrett
#41. We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Valerie Jarrett
#42. The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.
Valerie Jarrett
#43. We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them
the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.
Valerie Jarrett
#44. When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!
Keith Jarrett
#45. I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#46. The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
Keith Jarrett
#48. Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#49. There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
Valerie Jarrett
#50. What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#51. The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz ... you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Keith Jarrett
#52. For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
Valerie Jarrett
#53. I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that.
Jeff Jarrett
#54. My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#55. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.
Norma Jarrett
#56. I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.
Keith Jarrett
#57. 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.
Keith Jarrett
#58. The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
Bede Jarrett
#59. 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.
Keith Jarrett
#60. I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
Keith Jarrett
#61. Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.
Keith Jarrett
#62. We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.
Keith Jarrett
#63. The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
Bede Jarrett
#64. As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#65. For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
Jeff Jarrett
#67. You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.
Keith Jarrett
#68. If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
Keith Jarrett
#69. Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett
#70. As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
Valerie Jarrett
#71. The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Valerie Jarrett
#72. I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.
Keith Jarrett
#73. FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.
Valerie Jarrett
#74. If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Valerie Jarrett
#75. Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Keith Jarrett
#76. Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett
#77. Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
Keith Jarrett
#78. When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
Keith Jarrett
#79. If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Keith Jarrett
#80. One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
Keith Jarrett
#81. I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.
Jeff Jarrett
#82. If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
Keith Jarrett
#83. The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.
Jarrett McCall
#84. The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
#85. Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
Bede Jarrett
#86. My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
Valerie Jarrett
#87. The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
Valerie Jarrett
#89. One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
Valerie Jarrett
#90. My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.
Valerie Jarrett
#91. I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
Keith Jarrett
#92. I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the chance to design a special The UPS Store/Toys for Tots car, this contest is a great way for children to learn about the importance of charitable giving.
Dale Jarrett
#93. The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
Valerie Jarrett
#94. Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
Valerie Jarrett
#95. The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
Valerie Jarrett
#97. I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me ... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
Keith Jarrett
#98. On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
#99. Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
Keith Jarrett
#100. The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett
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