Pat Metheny Quotes

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

I am pretty well versed in the knowledge of music.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I'm really passionate about music.

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.