Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVISWhen the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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