Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVISWith “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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.
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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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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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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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