If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVISAmericans 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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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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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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