You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVISLook, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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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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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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