It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
MILES DAVIS
That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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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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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything – you know what I mean?
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