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Miles Davis Jazz Quotes & Sayings

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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

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. — Miles Davis

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s. — Donovan Bailey

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light. — Miles Davis

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once! — Miles Davis

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like. — Oprah Winfrey

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around. — Miles Davis

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places. — Miles Davis

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin! — Miles Davis

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis

My tunnel vision work ethic is very hard to come by, I believe. I have had an unwavering faith in myself and my career for as long as I can remember. — Tinashe

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. — David E. Goldberg

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. — Henry Rollins

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one. — Miles Davis

If you don't know what to play, play nothing. — Miles Davis

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street. — Miles Davis

I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids. — Dane Cook

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid. — Daniel Clowes

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. — Shirley Hazzard

I still got my Ferrari. — Miles Davis

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. — Cassandra Wilson

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'. — Thomas Wright

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. — Ice-T

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear. — George Duke

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. — Ted King

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. — Jan Garbarek

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. — Christopher Moore