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Famous Miles Davis Quotes
“I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.”
“You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.”
“I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.”
“I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.”
“You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.”
“For me, music and life are all about style.”
“Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.”
“It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.”
“If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.”
“Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.”
“Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.”
“You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played”
“Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.”
“In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.”
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.”
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
“I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”