Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISThat’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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 don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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