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.
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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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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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’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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