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 DAVISJazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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