To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVISIf somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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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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Music is an addiction.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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