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Miles Davis

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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Oneself People Question Sound Time
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.
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Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
Music is an addiction.
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Addiction Music One Liner
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
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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Comfortable Music Reason
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Hear Music Painting See Yourself
In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Important Music Silence Sound
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
I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Art Greatness Music Play
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
MILES DAVIS

Chance Eyes Hair Love Morning Night Yourself
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
MILES DAVIS

Expectation Herself Instrument Musician Performance Practice Time Understand
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Learning Play Yourself
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.
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Instrument Music Play Right Wrong Yourself

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