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.
MILES DAVISI’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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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 think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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