Food makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISSome 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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