109 Quotes by Pat Metheny

Whatever my recorded output is, it’s a reflection of a general love of music.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don’t even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

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 love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don’t sleep much!

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

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

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

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.

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