Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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There are no wrong notes.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Music is an addiction.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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