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Miles Davis

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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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Funny Music Thinking Yourself
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Enough Hype People Understand
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Musician Notes Play Yourself
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Call Known Legend Music Myself
I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Leave Listening Myself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Note Place Wrong
I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Goodness Music
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Acceptance Mistake Yourself
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Imagination Myself Patience People Play
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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Myself Rhythm Writing
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand

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