I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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