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
music people personality
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
musical verbs jazz-and-life
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
fields musician building
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.
soul spirit hardware
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
guitar icons culture
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
fruit becoming verbs
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.
player musician listeners
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
player levels kind
Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.
infinity musician looks
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity
zone
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly
hate way sound
I hate the way chorus boxes sound
guitar mind pieces
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
jazz music-is your-presence
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...
cities kansas-city able
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young