Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISWith “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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t 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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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 think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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