| "Music is a very difficult thing for me to quantify any more. As I get more involved and more advanced as a musician, I see that everything I do has the potential to be music and vice versa. For me, the line between what I do as a musician and what I do sitting here talking with you gets blurred at times. If you could trace somebody on a piece of paper,the outline of who they really are could be music. In my case, it is a reflection of the best part of being here on Earth at this time.
I almost feel like music is a mistake - like we are not supposed to know about it. We have noses so we can smell, ears to hear, and eyes to see. Music, of course, comes in through our ears, but we all know that it is not just sounds. There is something else included in music that is very difficult to define. It reminds us of where we were before and where we are going after. It is a mysterious vapor that somehow slips in the cracks between this plane of existence and some other one. The people who are good musicians have the ability to conjure up more of that vapor than others. Everyone recognizes it when it's there. It is something universal that goes beyond language and beyond race, country, or nationality. We recognize it as something we all have in common. More and more, I see that it is the same thing you find wherever there is love, intensity, energy, or human potential. All those good things include this same mysterious vapor that is the fabric of music."...Pat Metheny |
