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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.
“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 · Ape
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“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.”
“I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.”
“I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”
“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.”
“Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!”
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“Just being an ape is a workout.”
“I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.”
“On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.”
“It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.”
“Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.”
“Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.”