I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
MILES DAVISIf somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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