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.
MILES DAVISWhat’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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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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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