Miles Davis Quotes - Page 2

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• Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Revolution

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• At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

  Miles Davis

  Years, Giving, One Day

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• Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Matter, Kind

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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  People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

  Miles Davis

  Hype, People, Enough

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Play, Way

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• In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Mistake, Improvisation

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Phones, Answers, Shut Up

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• I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Firsts, Figures

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• If you have to ask, you'll never know.

  Miles Davis

  Knows, Asks, Ifs

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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?

  Miles Davis

  Years, Practice, Play

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• To keep creating you have to be about change.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Creating, Jazz

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• My ego only needs a good rhythm section

  Miles Davis

  Ego, Needs, Rhythm

  "Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960". Book by Jack Chambers, Beech Tree Books. p. 261, 1983.

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• In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

  Miles Davis

  Dresses, Way, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Guitar, Self

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• I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

  Miles Davis

  Thinking, Voice, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

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• When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Book, Writing, School

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Art, Men, America

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• You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Jazz

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• You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Causes, Jazz

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• The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

  Miles Davis

  Play, Way, Helping

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• It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

  Miles Davis

  Discovery, White, America

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• Always look ahead, but never look back.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Looks, Jazz

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• My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Father, Play

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• For me, music and life are all about style.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Style, Jazz And Life

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1989). “Miles, the autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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