Pat Metheny Quotes
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce the GDP.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
