I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
MILES DAVISIt 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?
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Play what you know and then play above that
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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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.
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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