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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?
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
Age: 65 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 26
Died: 1991
Died: September 28
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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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Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
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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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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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