Pat Metheny Quotes
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
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You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
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I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.
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If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
