Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVISWhite folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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There are no wrong notes.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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