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.
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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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