Details Quote by Pat Metheny Download Open image “Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.” — Pat Metheny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Details History Ideas Jazz Music Powerful
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing. — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't.… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade can be… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
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… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting… — Zhang Ziyi Copy Share Image
