Pat Metheny Quotes

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

My music is jazz.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.