I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is an addiction.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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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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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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