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Jazz Quotes by Miles Davis
- Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
- You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.
- Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.
- 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…
- My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.
- ...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the…
- I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,…
- Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all…
- In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.
- He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no…
- It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to…
- Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
- We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.
- At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.
- As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
- I still got my Ferrari.
- 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…
- Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
- 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…
- If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you…
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- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and… — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker