I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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