If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISIt’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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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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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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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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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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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