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.
MILES DAVISIt’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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