If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
MILES DAVISThere are no wrong notes.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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I never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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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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My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
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