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.
MILES DAVISAt least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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