If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVISMy ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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