In music, silence is more important than sound.
MILES DAVISIf 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!”
More Miles Davis Quotes
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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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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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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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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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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I don’t pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself…and I’m too vain to play anything I think is bad.
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