Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVISHe 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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 never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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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 the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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