Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Music is an addiction.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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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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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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