Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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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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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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