The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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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 understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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