Pat Metheny Quotes

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.