If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
MILES DAVISCertain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Music is an addiction.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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