Music is an addiction.
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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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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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