If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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There are no wrong notes.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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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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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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