Pat Metheny Quotes

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count on a master class in splitting the difference between artistry and obviousness during the so-called Blaxploitation era.

My favorite memory about 'Baywatch' is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.

I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the 'Rambo III' score. I was not allowed to see 'Rambo,' but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie.

Badlapur' has got an excellent soundtrack even though it wasn't planned at all in the beginning.

There's much more music now in movies than there used to be. Maybe sometimes there's too much music.

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what I did with them. So, for me, a good melody is not just a pretty tune.

I fantasized that I went to art school with the Beatles.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.

I feel so proud of everything I have achieved and it is lovely that my soundtracks take people back to their first love or holiday.

I don't have one song about partying.

I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.

I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of a colossal '79 Lincoln Coupe Mark V, embarking on some otherwise forgettable road trip somewhere in the Deep South.

The background score plays an important role in black comedies.

Nostalgia has always been a key player in my songwriting cause within that space I find a great deal of inspiration.

The first beat that I ever made that I thought was actually worth a damn was called 'Toilet Paper Nostrils,' and I made it when I had a cold. I had the worst cold ever. And I had toilet-paper nostrils making music, but it was really reflective of how I felt. It was a really sad trumpet sound.