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.
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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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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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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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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 never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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