Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVISI’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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 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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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