The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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