Quotes by Pat Metheny

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.

Guitar

Mind

Pieces

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

Collaboration

Done

Years

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.

Country

Political

Rocks

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

Culture

Guitar

Icons

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

Play

Thinking

World

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

Hate

Sound

Way

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.

Ideas

Order

Swings

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.

Building

Fields

Musician

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

Hard Times

Night

Saws

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

Aesthetic

Sound

Thinking

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Aesthetic

Always Trying

Art

Becoming

Big Things

Bigs

Building

Change

Collaboration

Connections

Country

Culture

Demand

Different

Done

Environment

Esoteric

Fields

Firsts

Fruit

Guitar

Guy

Hard Times

Hardware

Hate

Home

I Can

Icons

Ideas

Identity

Jazz

Kind

Levels

Might

Mind

Music

Music Is

Music Love

Musical

Musician

Needs

Night

Order

Output

Peter

Pieces

Play

Player

Political

Practice

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Quotes by Pat Metheny

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.

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

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

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

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

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.

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

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

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