In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVISYou can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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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 under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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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 one asked him a question.
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