Pat Metheny Quotes
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
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The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
