In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVISWhen 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Music is an addiction.
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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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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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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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