My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVISI never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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If 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.
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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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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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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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