Pat Metheny Quotes
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There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.
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To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.
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...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
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Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound
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Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
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Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
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The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
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Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
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The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.
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I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.
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Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
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I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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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.
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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 and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted
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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 if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.
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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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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.
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Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.
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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.
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If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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