People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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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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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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