The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVISIf 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!”
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Music is an addiction.
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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.
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