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.
MILES DAVISGood music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Music is an addiction.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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