Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVISIn music, silence is more important than sound.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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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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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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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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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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