Music is the framework around the silence.
MILES DAVISSome day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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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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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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