Food makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
MILES DAVISJazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISFirst you imitate, then you innovate.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVISIt’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVISThat’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
MILES DAVISYou have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
MILES DAVISMusic is an addiction.
MILES DAVISMy 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.
MILES DAVISI like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
MILES DAVISDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVISKeith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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