Pat Metheny Quotes

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.