Play what you know and then play above that
MILES DAVISMusic is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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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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