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.
MILES DAVISThat’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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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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