With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
MILES DAVISFor me, music and life are all about style.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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