If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVISIt takes a long time to sound like yourself.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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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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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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