Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVISI never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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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!”
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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