For me, music and life are all about style.
MILES DAVISIn other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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When 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.
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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 think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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!”
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