Pat Metheny Quotes

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Effort

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Live
  • Creation
  • Gymnastics

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Remember
  • Enthusiasm
  • Worries

• I reach for my briefcase, take out a yellow legal pad and take a pen from my coat pocket. Then I make a list of all the items people think of as being goals: cost-effective purchasing, employing good people, high technology, producing products, producing quality products, selling quality products, capturing market share. I even add some others like communications and customer satisfaction. All of those are essential to running the business successfully. What do they all do? They enable the company to make money. But they are not the goals themselves; they’re just the means of achieving the goal.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Money
  • Business
  • Technology

• The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Telephone

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism