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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?

Miles Davis

I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVIS

Music Myself Name Play
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVIS

Attitude Character Musician Play
If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music Myself Time Video
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Music Reason
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVIS

Away Listening Music Time
Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVIS

Forward Future Past See
I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
MILES DAVIS

Best Lips Myself Play
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Behind Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVIS

Drugs Feeling Music
Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Myself Play Time
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVIS

Thinking Tolerance
If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVIS

Unknown Yourself
I 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.
MILES DAVIS

Artistic Music People Reach Thinking
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVIS

Freedom Ignorance Knowledge Slave
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
MILES DAVIS

Comfortable Musician Ruin Yourself

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