I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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 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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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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There are no wrong notes.
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