Music is an addiction.
MILES DAVISSometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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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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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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