I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
MILES DAVISIt 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?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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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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