You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
MILES DAVISColtrane, you cant play everything at once!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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 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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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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