Pat Metheny Quotes

• Whatever my recorded output is, it’s a reflection of a general love of music.

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• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

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• The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

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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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  Tags in People, Jazz

• My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

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  Tags in Excellent, Amazing

• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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

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  Tags in Jazz, Instruments

• It’s more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

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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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• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.

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• I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

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  Tags in Think, Basic

• I saw A Hard Day’s Night 12 or 13 times.

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

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  Tags in Realized, Sound

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

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• I don’t worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

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  Tags in Worry, Jazz

• 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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  Tags in World, Music, Think

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

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  Tags in Culture

Pat Metheny (18)

Birth:	12th August, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Guitarist

About

Pat Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, latin jazz and jazz fusion. Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards. He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist and journalist Mike Metheny.

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• 1948 - Joschka Fischer
• 1958 - Will Sergeant
• 1987 - Brooklyn Decker
• 1971 - Nicholas Brendon
• 1939 - Alan Ayckbourn

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• 1910 - William Graham Sumner
• 1748 - William Kent
• 1878 - William M. Tweed
• 1850 - Adoniram Judson
• 2006 - William Sloane Coffin