My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
MILES DAVISIf 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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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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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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