109 Quotes by Pat Metheny

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.