I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISIf I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Music is an addiction.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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