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.
MILES DAVIS
If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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