Miles Davis Quotes
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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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.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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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.
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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!'.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Science brings men nearer to God.
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I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact.
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I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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Obviously, having served in wars myself, I'm eager to do everything possible to avoid them, but our military capability vis-a-vis a country like Iran is a major source of leverage in any negotiation that we should never, ever give up.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
