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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

Miles Davis

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVIS

Drugs Feeling Music
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
MILES DAVIS

Hear Music Painting See Yourself
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Sound Time Yourself
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVIS

Follow Musician Revolution
We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
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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Goodness Music Myself Time Video
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.
MILES DAVIS

Ability Chemistry Known Play Togetherness
Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVIS

Away Listening Music Time
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 DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
MILES DAVIS

Improvisation Mistake Spontaneous
Always look ahead, but never look back.
MILES DAVIS

Forward Future Past See
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.
MILES DAVIS

Kill Live Man Myself Slow White
You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
MILES DAVIS

Learning Practice Sound Time Yourself
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.
MILES DAVIS

Myself Rhythm Writing
Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
MILES DAVIS

Answer Call Myself Phone

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.

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