If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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He sounded to me like he’s supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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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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