You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
MILES DAVISI can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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