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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

Pat Metheny

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Pat Metheny
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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