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!”
MILES DAVISFor me, music and life are all about style.
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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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