Pat Metheny Quotes
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Pat Metheny Famous Quotes & Sayings
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More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.
I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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 worth of work.
I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change ... is that I really need to go home and practice.
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.