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Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Pat Metheny

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Pat Metheny
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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Lee's Summit
Missouri
Patrick Bruce Metheny
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As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.
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More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
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Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
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I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
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The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.
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The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.
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Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
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Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound
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Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
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