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
actual build classical continue folk jazz lives living music musicians spirit street time
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.
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.
jazz music-is your-presence
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...
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.
music way jazz
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
music jazz poetic
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
music jazz environment
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
wind guy jazz
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers...
music demand jazz
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
sea water jazz
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
ideas might jazz
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.
condition human jazz kinds music musical stuff takes true vehicle
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
casual love playing
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.
figure fit ideas instrument involved totally trying
I was totally involved in trying to figure out a way of doing things with my instrument that would fit the ideas that I had in my head.