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Miles Davis

We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
MILES DAVIS

Music Play Sadness White
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.
MILES DAVIS

Myself Rhythm Writing
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS

Known Play Yourself
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

Ideas Judgement Man Project
I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
MILES DAVIS

Known Music Myself People Stupidity
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
MILES DAVIS

Musician Notes Play Yourself
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVIS

Funny Music Thinking Yourself
If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVIS

Behind Yourself
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
MILES DAVIS

Myself Understand Yourself
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVIS

Idol Inspirational Myself
My future starts when I wake up every morning.
MILES DAVIS

Future Morning Myself Start Wake Up
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.
MILES DAVIS

Instrument Person Play Yourself
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVIS

Goodness Music
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
MILES DAVIS

Drugs Feeling Music
In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVIS

Important Music Silence Sound
There are no wrong notes.
MILES DAVIS

Music Notes One Liner Wrong

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

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