Pat Metheny Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Pat Metheny quote about:
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“My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.”
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“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.”
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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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“Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.”
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“Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers...”
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“I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.”
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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 think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level,”
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“Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument,”
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“Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.”
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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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“Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.”
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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 realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound”
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“I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do”
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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 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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“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.”
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“I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly”
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“Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.”
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“Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.”
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“The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.”
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“Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.”
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“It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.”
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