Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
MILES DAVISMusic is the framework around the silence.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
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Music is an addiction.
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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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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using 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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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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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 don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
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In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That’s a little bit too much.
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If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
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