Pat Metheny Quotes

"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Work, Musicians)

"Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Love, Music, Reflection)

"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: First)

"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Beauty, People, Jazz)

"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Time, 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."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Time, Brother, Talent)

"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Jazz)

"I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Deep, Zone)

"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."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Music, Play, Pretty, World)

"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Music, Key, Listening)

"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Jazz)

"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Culture, Guitar, Youth)

"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Jazz, Principles, Worry)

"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Hate, Sound)

"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Sound)

"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Day, Night)

"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Sound)