You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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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’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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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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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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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