Pat Metheny Quotes
- Listening is the key to everything good in music.
- Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
- Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
- My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
- It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
- I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
- Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
- Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
- People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
- I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
- Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
- More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
- I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do
- I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world…
- From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
- I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly
- I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound
- I hate the way chorus boxes sound
- I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
- I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is