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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American Musician
Born: Aug 12, 1954
Jazz Me Music Musicians Think You
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity. Pat Metheny
Musicians Sense Look Infinity
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. Pat Metheny
Time Me People Sometimes Long Long Time Become Jazz Took Seconds Say About Takes Five Fan
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. Pat Metheny
Music Time Me Musicians People Build Jazz Living Tools Folk Folk Music See Spirit Classical Classical Music Make Around Materials Continue Use Jazz Musicians Keep Lives Actual Street
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them. Pat Metheny
Great You Writing Analogy Musician Out All-Around Archaeology About Pick Talking Around Without Often Tunes Breaking Them Skill Use Your
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. Pat Metheny
Work Hard Work Long Run Would Minor Long Run Part Over Talent Mostly Contend Always Ultimately Hard Element
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
Music World Think Music World Way Would Exactly Exactly What Able Pretty Mainstream Know Qualify Been Wanted Successfully Function Play
I hate the way chorus boxes sound. Pat Metheny
Hate Way Boxes Sound Chorus
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound. Pat Metheny
Way Had Like Equipment Sound Little Realized Really Why
I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do. Pat Metheny
Think Most Sound Aesthetic Basic
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. Pat Metheny
Jazz Think More Left-Wing Represent View
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. Pat Metheny
Work Best Musicians Young City Able Really Kansas Kansas City Starting
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly. Pat Metheny
Constantly Almost Practicing Deep Zone
It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. Pat Metheny
Soul Spirit About Touch More Conception Than Whether Place Hardware
I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me. Pat Metheny
Me Inspired Always Material Front
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. Pat Metheny
Buy People Jazz Think Like Because Doing Lot Just Artists Just Because Should
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. Pat Metheny
You People Stage Think Corny See Computer Computers Sending Want
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore. Pat Metheny
Love You Nothing Everything Casual Spontaneously Documented Doing Going Jam Anymore To Love Used Things Playing
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music. Pat Metheny
Music Incredibly Way Physical Beating Exciting Make Instruments Doing Blowing Hitting Literally Acoustic Things
Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60. Pat Metheny
Me Someone Knew Said Planet Who Now Oldest
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. Pat Metheny
Change Creativity Jazz Think Highest Highest Level Demands Disdain Quite Nostalgia Unforgiving Actually Level
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! Pat Metheny
Life Love Music My Life Spend Able Something Feel Doing Much Really Working Lucky Playing Sleep
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman. Pat Metheny
Guitarist Coleman Extremely Melodic Pianist Bailey Cecil Taylor
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. Pat Metheny
Me First Somehow Point Instrument Reference Trumpet Actually

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