The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
MILES DAVISMy ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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