My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
MILES DAVISIn music, silence is more important than sound.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.
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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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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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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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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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Music is an addiction.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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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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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Play what you know and then play above that
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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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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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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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