The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
— Miles Davis · Artist
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More Quotes by Miles Davis
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
“The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.”
“I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”
“If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!”
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
“Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!”
More Artist Quotes
“Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.”
“I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.”
“You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.”
“You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.”
“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”