12/3/2009
“I’m never trying to get it to sound just like a piano. I’m trying to find every possible way to make it either a voice or an instrument that is unlike a Western instrument. You know, it can’t be a guitar but I wish it was; it can’t be an orchestra but I wish it was. So the rebellion that I’m faced with immediately upon sitting down at a piano is that it is a piano. And I can turn cartwheels — it’s not going to make any difference. But what I can do is try to almost fool the instrument into becoming something else.”
— Keith Jarrett, WSJ January 2009
