My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVISIf you have to ask, you’ll never know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Play what you know and then play above that
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Music is an addiction.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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