All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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