You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
MILES DAVISMusic is the framework around the silence.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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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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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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Music is an addiction.
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It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
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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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I always listen to what I can leave out.
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You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
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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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