The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I’ve always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that’s where great art and music happens.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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