Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Methenyis an American jazz guitarist and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth12 August 1954
CityLee's Summit, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
art trying unrelated
I'm 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 would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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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.
people
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
computers people sending
I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
point reference trumpet
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
music firsts kind
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
music people long
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
listening gone realizing
More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
music powerful ideas
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.