I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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