For me, music and life are all about style.
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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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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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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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