Miles Davis Quotes
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.Miles Davis
Quotes to Explore
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick -
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson -
I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
Anton Zaslavski -
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
Omari Hardwick -
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Wallace Stevens -
I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.
Najib Razak
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
Damian Lewis -
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz -
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
Barry Diller -
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta -
I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
Damian Marley
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
Victoria Jackson -
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
Ed Koch -
If the books are selling, the money will follow.
Larry Kirshbaum -
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau -
Science brings men nearer to God.
Louis Pasteur
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To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world - the man who is changing the world - is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it's absolutely insulting.
Luther Strange -
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.
Kate Zambreno -
If you do one thing a day, make it a headstand. It's the king of all postures and has so many benefits. It helps me sleep better and focus.
Christy Turlington -
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
Jimmy Chin -
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
Miles Davis