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 DAVISYou have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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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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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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