The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
MILES DAVISIf you have to ask, you’ll never know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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