I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISJazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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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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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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