If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISKeith, how does it feel to be a genius?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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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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