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.
MILES DAVISDo not fear mistakes. There are none.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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I 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.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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