Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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