Pat Metheny Quotes
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
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At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.
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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
