Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
MILES DAVISIt’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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 care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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