Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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