All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
MILES DAVISA painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
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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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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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I don’t like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there’s no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don’t know.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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There are no wrong notes.
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