Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVISIf somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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 they don’t know.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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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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.
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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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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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