Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
Pat MethenyI 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 MethenyI think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
Pat Metheny