Pat Metheny Quotes
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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One thing about a film production is that it must run efficiently; there is no room for dead wood. So somebody that hangs around by the coffee wagon won't get hired again, but somebody who is dedicated and works hard and really puts out will get noticed by the people that matter around there and will get asked to come back again.
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
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I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.
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Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
