I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
MILES DAVISI never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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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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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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