Ifs Quote by Pat Metheny Download Open image “...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.” — Pat Metheny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Jazz Jazz and life Jazz music Musical Process Verbs
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new… — Nina Simone 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
Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can… — Ray Brown Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it.… — Eldar Djangirov 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
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. — Ray Brown 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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
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