Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISMy future starts when I wake up every morning.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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