American - Musician | May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991
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.
Miles Davis
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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.
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When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!
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Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.
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Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
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