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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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.
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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.
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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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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence...
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity
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...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
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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.
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I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.