Pat Metheny Quotes
'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'
Quotes to Explore
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Every idea has its time.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.
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I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helping my daughters.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
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There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
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'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'
