I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVISAmericans 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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There are no wrong notes.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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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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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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