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 DAVISSome 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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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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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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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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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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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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