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The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things. — Pat Metheny

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. — Pat Metheny

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing. — Pat Metheny

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. — Pat Metheny

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times. — Pat Metheny

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play. — Mark White

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is. — Pat Metheny

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. — Pat Metheny

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything. — Pat Metheny

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity. — Pat Metheny

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. — Pat Metheny

Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. — Pat Metheny

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound. — Pat Metheny

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! — Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else. — Pat Metheny

The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman. — Pat Metheny

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

Listening is the key to everything good in music. — Pat Metheny

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. — Pat Metheny

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways. — Pat Metheny

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. — Pat Metheny

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. — Pat Metheny

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. — Pat Metheny

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence ... — Pat Metheny

Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!' — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. — Pat Metheny

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers ... — Pat Metheny

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though! — Geezer Butler

I hate the way chorus boxes sound. — Pat Metheny

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly. — Pat Metheny

I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me. — Pat Metheny

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. — Pat Metheny

I'm listening to Pat Metheny and Chris Potter right now as I write this introduction. If — Con Campbell

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. — Pat Metheny

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. — Pat Metheny

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn. — Pat Metheny

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do. — Pat Metheny