First you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISJazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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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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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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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Music is an addiction.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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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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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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