If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISA legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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.
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