If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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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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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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 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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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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