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44 quotes by Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) 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...
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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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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

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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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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up... →

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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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Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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

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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

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

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

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