"this was about the time i started playing real short
solos then leaving the bandstand. people were complaining because they
were coming to see me play, or do whatever it was they thought i was supposed
to do.
by now they had made me a star, and people were coming
just to look at me, to see what i was going to do, what i had on, whether
i would say anything or cuss somebody out, like i was some kind of freak
in a glass cage at the motherfucking zoo.
man that shit was depressing."
Miles Davis 'Autobiography'