You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVISAll my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Music is an addiction.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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