I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISThe way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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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’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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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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