Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
MILES DAVISA painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Play what you know and then play above that
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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