Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVISYou know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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