My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVISI’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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