In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVISThe way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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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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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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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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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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