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
firsts instruments trumpets
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument,
creativity thinking levels
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level,
life-changing unity band
The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
reflection music-love output
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
brother player cities
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
cities kansas-city able
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
jazz form audience
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
thinking play world
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
jazz music-is your-presence
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...
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.
zone
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly
thinking wings views
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is
thinking sound aesthetic
I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do
hate way sound
I hate the way chorus boxes sound