I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
MILES DAVISIt takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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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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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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