Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
MILES DAVISI 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.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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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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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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With “We Are The World,” I can’t even eat when I watch that on television. If I’m eatin’ some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.
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I usually write from the rhythm section…If a drummer got a funky beat on some things – like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that’s even – I can write something.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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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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I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.
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The only reason to write a new song is because you’re tired of the old ones.
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You can’t eat a winner’s plaque.
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