White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
MILES DAVISWe don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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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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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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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’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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