I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.
If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.
I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.