My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVISIf you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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There are no wrong notes.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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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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