I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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