Always listen for what you can leave out.
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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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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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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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