That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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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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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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 out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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There are no wrong notes.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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