Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group...… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes.… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs." — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums." — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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