You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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 have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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