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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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Jazz Guitarist
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Lee's Summit
Missouri
Patrick Bruce Metheny
Pat Matheny
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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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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted
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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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I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
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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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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.
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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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Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
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I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.
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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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Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
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I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
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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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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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The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.
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