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.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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