You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
MILES DAVISMy 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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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