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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Miles Davis

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Artistic Death Music Pieces
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Ego Goodness Myself Rhythm Section
That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Attitude Negative Vibe Way Woman Yourself
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Known Music Myself People Stupidity
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Instrument Man Myself Player
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
MILES DAVIS

Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
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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Music Myself Sell Word
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself
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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Eat Feeling Myself Strong Watch World
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
Music is the framework around the silence.
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Framework Music Perspective Silence
Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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Feeling Genius One Liner
If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
MILES DAVIS

Determination Note Play Wrong Yourself
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
MILES DAVIS

Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness

If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

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