Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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There are no wrong notes.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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