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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.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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