I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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.
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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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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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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 way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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