Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
MILES DAVISI always listen to what I can leave out.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Some day I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
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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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Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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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’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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