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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.

Miles Davis

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Person Play Yourself
The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Change Help Music Play Way
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Addiction Audience Music Myself Play Seen
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Ideas Judgement Man Project
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

Call Known Legend Music Myself
White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Label Thinking Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Sell Word
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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Attention Bad Criticism Myself Pay Play Thinking
Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVIS

Leave Listening Yourself
In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVIS

Important Music Silence Sound
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.
MILES DAVIS

Down Feeling Foot Goodness Music Word Yourself
I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVIS

Known Myself Woman
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVIS

Idol Inspirational Myself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Sound Walk Way Yourself
There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
MILES DAVIS

Note Place Wrong

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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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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