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.
MILES DAVISI’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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