From an
interview with Pat Metheny written up in the Buffalo News (11/02/03):
It's much more difficult to play something worthwhile, musical or maybe even eloquent, over simple chord progressions - say, three triads - than it is to play something over a lush, dense and complicated chord sequence, which suggests almost limitless possibilities. The whole notion that simple music is less profound than complex music is patently absurd. What touches the heart isn't necessarily what is most difficult or most complex.
What touches the heart is purity of expression and the investment of emotion. Craft is very important, but it will never be an end in itself.
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