To keep creating you have to be about change.
MILES DAVISFood makes my mind sluggish.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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 don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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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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Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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