I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
MILES DAVISMy ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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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.
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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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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