At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.
MILES DAVIS[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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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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There are no wrong notes.
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When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
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You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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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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