I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVISIf you have to ask, you’ll never know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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There are no wrong notes.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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