Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
MILES DAVISDon’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Music is an addiction.
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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.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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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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