I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISI think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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 like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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