You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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