In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
MILES DAVISI ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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