Pat Metheny Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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.

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  Change, Home, Practice

• My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

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  Music, Firsts, Jazz

• Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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  Music, Keys, Guitar

• 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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  Music, Long, People

• 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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  Ideas, Might, Jazz

• Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

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  Music, Powerful, Ideas

• 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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  Sea, Water, Jazz

• Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

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  Wind, Guy, Jazz

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

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  Music, Worry, Principles

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

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  Music, Stupid, Jazz

• 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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  Swings, Order, Ideas

• It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

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  Music, Jazz, Environment

• Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

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  Music, Demand, Jazz

• Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

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  Music, Way, Jazz

• ...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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  Musical, Jazz And Life, Verbs

• It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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  Verbs, Fruit, Becoming

• 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.

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  Guitar, Mind, Pieces

• Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

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  Jazz, Music Is, Your Presence

• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

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  Thinking, Views, Wings

• There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

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  Jazz, Form, Audience

• 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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  Creativity, Thinking, Levels

• I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

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  Play, Musician, Tunes

• The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

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  Music, People, Personality

• 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.

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  Country, Rocks, Political

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• 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

  Guitar, Play, Albums

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