My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. Pat Metheny More Quotes by Pat Metheny More Quotes From Pat Metheny 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. Pat Metheny change practice home Listening is the key to everything good in music. Pat Metheny guitar music keys The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners. Pat Metheny best-players musician player Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work. Pat Metheny musical sound play 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 albums guitar play There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. Pat Metheny audience jazz form People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. Pat Metheny music long people Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers. Pat Metheny jazz guy wind More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing. Pat Metheny realizing gone listening Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't. Pat Metheny levels kind player Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. Pat Metheny music powerful ideas 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. Pat Metheny swings order ideas Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you. Pat Metheny demand jazz music It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. Pat Metheny environment jazz music The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice. Pat Metheny practice home needs Music is one big thing to me. Pat Metheny big-things music-is bigs The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things. Pat Metheny i-can Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. Pat Metheny hardware soul spirit 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. Pat Metheny fruit verbs becoming 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. Pat Metheny always-trying connections art
