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Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
Pat Metheny
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Pat Metheny
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 12
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Lee's Summit
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Patrick Bruce Metheny
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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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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do
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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 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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Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound
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The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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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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Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
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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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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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Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
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My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
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I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.
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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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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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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 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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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity
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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
