Drummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
MILES DAVISI never thought that the music called “jazz” was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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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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Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?
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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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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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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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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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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
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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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If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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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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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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