Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISI think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Music is an addiction.
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