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kuhill Aug 11 2011 at 10:32 AM	Here is the link to an article in german, which has "some spirit" of Pat Metheny, I think. If anyone is able to translate in "near" english, please do it. http://www.zeit.de/2011/30/Das-ist-mir-heilig
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thehague Aug 12 2011 at 11:49 AM	Well done, Tokeyozi.
tokeyozi Aug 12 2011 at 8:05 AM	Hague, although your post catches the essence of what Pat says, allow me to elaborate a little more. Call it ‘professional deformation’. And I hope it’s ’near English’ enough, kuhill ;) It’s an interview with Pat, part of what I believe is a German series called “It’s sacred to me”. He wrote his first song when he was 11; it sounded already very much like most of the tunes he wrote ever since. It wasn’t a bad start, he adds, although most (all?) of it had been nicked from Henry Mancini. We all have our inner melody, which can be expressed in many different ways. He says his favourite musicians and composers have the ability to produce limitless variations of this (inner melody). Best example J.S. Bach; we will never fully understand the creative potential of his music. When most people explain what is sacred to them, it’s usually about religion. But he refuses to try and figure out the religious meaning behind the music. There are so many things we do comprehend, so why should we bother about those that are beyond our grasp. He says he’s happy admitting he simply does not know; and everything happening this very moment is already interesting enough. He started as a professional at the age of 14, practising 10 hours a day, hardly went to school and played clubs nearly every night. He was not exactly a participating member of society. Music was his teacher. He says he has learnt so much from it that he finds it hard to make a distinction between music and life. Life is one big concert, which he enjoys every single moment. And if he should not be able to play any more notes it would be alright. He could live the rest of his life as a musician, without playing music, content as he is with the things he has learnt through it.
thehague Aug 11 2011 at 3:21 PM	Basically what he says is he doedn’t believe in religion (praise him, I add) but he explains everything comes from his kind of universal "inner song". He loves life as being one big concert, one big happening. I add: may he live forever.
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