Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
MILES DAVIS
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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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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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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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 always listen to what I can leave out.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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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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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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