If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVISI never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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