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.
MILES DAVISWhat’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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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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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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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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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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