Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISPlay what you know and then play above that
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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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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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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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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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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