You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVISWhen you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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 have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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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 always listen to what I can leave out.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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