Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is an addiction.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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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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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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