109 Quotes by Pat Metheny

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

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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

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

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity