"Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent."
"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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Source: Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
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