Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVISWhen the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Music is an addiction.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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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.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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