Pat Metheny Quotes
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.
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At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
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I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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Shhhh gyal wine and flex Shhhh tell dem seh a yuh a di best Yuh look better gyal Yuh look better Show dem your move gyal Show dem your move
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
