You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVISIf you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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Music is an addiction.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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