Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVISYou can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Music is an addiction.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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