Miles Davis Quotes - Page 5

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• Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.

  Miles Davis

  Wife, Guy, Ego

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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!"

  Miles Davis

  Song, Video, Said

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

  Miles Davis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

  Miles Davis

  Uncles, Jazz, Selling

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• Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Drummer, Beats

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• 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

  Stupid, People, Dixieland

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Hard Work, Blow, Games

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Play, White, Ems

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• If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Trying, Hips

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• Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice-looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money.

  Miles Davis

  Nice, Mean, Men

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• I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Glasses

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

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• With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

  Miles Davis

  World, Watches, Television

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

  Miles Davis

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The music speaks for itself!

  Miles Davis

  Speak, Music Speaks

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

  Miles Davis

  Play, Jazz, Coltrane

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• Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.

  Miles Davis

  Heart, Mean, Play

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

  Miles Davis

  Attitude, Giving, Negative

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

  Miles Davis

  Behind You, Behinds, Ifs

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• You can't eat a winner's plaque.

  Miles Davis

  Funny, Humor, Winner

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• I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

  Miles Davis

  Funny, Mean, Player

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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.

  Miles Davis

  Writing, Play, People

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

  Miles Davis

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

  Miles Davis

  Machines, Pay, Bills

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

  Miles Davis

  Cutting, Lips, Stills

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• Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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