Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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