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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.
— Pat Metheny
Tags: people, time, me, music

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There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
— Pat Metheny
Tags: who, always, go, me
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
— Pat Metheny
Tags: see, musicians, who, long
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
— Pat Metheny
Tags: thanks, youth, guitar, culture
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
— Pat Metheny
Tags: nostalgia, creativity, think, change
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
Tags: way, think, world, music
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