Americans 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.
MILES DAVISDon’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I 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.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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