If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVISAll my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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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 the framework around the silence.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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