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.
MILES DAVISMusic is an addiction.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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Music is an addiction.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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