Quotes by Jan Garbarek

• I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
• When we are on tour we also take chances.
• There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
• The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
• Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
• If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
• Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.