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.
MILES DAVISIf you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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’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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Music is an addiction.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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