Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVISMusic is an addiction.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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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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