Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVISWhen kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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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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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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