I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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 can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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