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" A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. "
Man
Doing
Used
" Do not fear mistakes. There are none. "
None
Mistakes
Fear
" Don't play what's there, play what's not there. "
Play
" For me, music and life are all about style. "
Music
About
Life
" He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel. "
Love
Think
Top
" If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! "
Everything
You
Me
" I have to change. It's like a curse. "
Curse
Like
Change
" I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. "
Legend
Know
Miles
" I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. "
Tell
You
First
" I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. "
Life
Morning
Thinking
" 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 there and I don't question it. "
Way
Music
Me
" It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him. "
Me
Jimi Hendrix
Him
" Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues guitarist. "
Away
Right
Me
" Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington. "
Some
Him
Little
" Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays. "
Because
Love
Prince
" Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass. "
Because
Back
Low
" Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. "
You
Time
Long Time
" Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat! "
Space
Up
You
" The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco. "
Listening
Guitar
Family
" The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. "
Jazz
Ideas
Artist
" 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 the high comes in. "
Find
Someone
Never
" When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest. "
You
Lose
Long
" You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best. "
You
Best
Game
" You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear. "
Rock
You
Way
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