People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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