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If you have a tone like mine ...

If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.

Miles Davis 141 quotes

As long as I've been playing,...

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

Miles Davis 141 quotes

I couldn't do "What's Love Go...

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

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If you make a suggestion and ...

If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.

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I was minding my own business...

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

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I don't wanna talk about Teo ...

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

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When I heard Coleman Hawkins,...

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. Th...

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Miles Davis 141 quotes

If you had to call it "unison...

If you had to call it "unison", it ain't unison. It ain't the same as somebody else. If you can hear that it's unison, and you have to name it something other than "unison", it ain't unison, you know what I mean? It's two guys playin', but one guy is playin' slightly out of tune, one is playin' slightly off meter.

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The music has gotten thick. G...

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 jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.

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Certain drummers drop time, a...

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

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If I hear a song like "Time A...

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 usually write from the rhyt...

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 mean, it makes me sick when...

I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.

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He sounded to me like he's su...

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

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You can tell whether a person...

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

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John Lee Hooker is the funkie...

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

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That's the way women do. The ...

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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I used to enjoy all the white...

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

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I gave the album [You're Unde...

I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.

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