The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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