Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
MILES DAVISDon’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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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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