If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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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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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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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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