I always listen to what I can leave out.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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