In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
MILES DAVISJazz 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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 you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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