15 Quotes by Jan Garbarek

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

They usually bring in some music and sing it to me. After I hear it I might very quickly say: No, I know for sure this will not work for me.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that’s what we face when we’re dealing with improvisation.

I feel very strongly when there’s no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

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.

There’s a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I’ve moved away from that.