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 DAVISI’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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