Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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