Pat Metheny Quotes

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Western music is alien to my ears.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.

I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there.

I am pretty well versed in the knowledge of music.

Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.

My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.

At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.

Being involved with BABYMETAL has allowed me to acquire more chances to really become involved with music. As a result, I find myself noticing each individual instrument the band plays and I feel that I have found a new way of enjoying music on a deeper level.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

People aren't hearing all the music.

It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.