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.
MILES DAVISIt took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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 always listen to what I can leave out.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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