First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISWhite folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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