White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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