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My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis
For me, music and life are all about style.
Miles Davis
He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.
Miles Davis
If you understood everything I said, you'd be me.
Miles Davis
you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
Miles Davis
Do not fear mistakes - there are none.
Miles Davis
The only thing I'm interested in is the music and the musicians. I don't acknowledge applause 'cause I'm giving them something. They're not giving me anything with their applause. Can I write that down?
Miles Davis
Coleman Hawkins told me never to play with someone older than me, and I never have. With older players, there's no force, no drive. With younger players, it's not that you know it all, or I know it all-it's I'm trying to learn it all.
Miles Davis
I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?
Miles Davis
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.
Miles Davis
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of who plays it is 80 percent.
Miles Davis
Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
Miles Davis
I'll play it and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis
I would like to hear more of the consummate melodic master, but I feel that big business and his record company have had a corrupting influence on his material. The rock and pop thing certainly draws a wider audience. It happens more and more these days, that unqualified people with executive positions try to tell musicians what is good and what is bad music. It's tempting for the musician to prejudice his own views when recording opportunities are so infrequent but I for one am determined to resist the temptation.
Miles Davis
I love Pops, I love the way he sings, the way he plays - everything he does, except when he says something against modern-jazz music.
Miles Davis
Miles said he looked on his need for constant change as a curse. However, Miles, along with Duke Ellington, in terms of looking for models of how you strategize with a band, have been there constantly in the background for me. Not the Beatles as a construct for a group, not Led Zeppelin, not the Floyd. My guides have always been Miles and Duke.
Miles Davis
Music is an addiction.
Miles Davis
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
Miles Davis
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