Pat Metheny Quotes

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life.

I get to work with a lot of great musicians - many I wouldn't have expected to work with - and see how they form their lives around their music and how they approach it.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

There are incredible musicians around the world.

The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play.

I just love getting as many experiences making music for and with people as possible.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.