If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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 sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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