Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVISSome 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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