I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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 the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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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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