There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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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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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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