White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISIf you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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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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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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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Music is an addiction.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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