The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
MILES DAVISColtrane, you cant play everything at once!
More Miles Davis Quotes
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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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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Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don’t know what to tell a person that can’t – if you can’t tell a person what you’re talkin’ about when they’re rushin’ or droppin’ the tempo, you get somebody else.
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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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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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