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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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Pat Metheny
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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Lee's Summit
Missouri
Patrick Bruce Metheny
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Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
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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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Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound
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Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
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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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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 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 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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If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.
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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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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 think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
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Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
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