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 DAVISIf 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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 don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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