Pat Metheny Quotes

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

I know how important '36 Chambers' is, and it inspired me to record 'Lifted.'

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.