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