Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
MILES DAVISMy ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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What’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.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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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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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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