A quote from Miles Davis, from a clip used in BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives episode on him. He was asked why he doesn’t revisit his old music. Those songs, to me, don’t exist. You know, we don’t have time for “Body and Soul” and “I Got Rhythm,” you know, or “So What,” or Kind of Blue. Those things are there, they were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over, it’s on the record. You know, people ask me, “Why’d you play this?” Go buy the record. Compare to Marina Abramović when asked a question about an early work: I hate these kind of questions. I can’t deal with sentimentality. To me, it’s so important: learn the lesson, move on. Learn the lesson, move on.
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