If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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There are no wrong notes.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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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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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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