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Famous Miles Davis Quotes
“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.”