I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVISKeith, how does it feel to be a genius?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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