A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
MILES DAVISJazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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