Always listen for what you can leave out.
MILES DAVISTo keep creating you have to be about change.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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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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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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Music is an addiction.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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