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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There are no wrong notes.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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 you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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