People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVISDo not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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