He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
MILES DAVISThat’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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 music, silence is more important than sound.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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