Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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