Pat Metheny Quotes
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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I think you can do a comedy show on just about every subject under the sun as long as it relates to the audience.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.
