I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
MILES DAVISDon’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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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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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 you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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