Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.
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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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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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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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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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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Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can’t do what we do is because they’re so comfortable doin’ what they do.
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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!
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In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it’s supposed to sound like you – the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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Music is an addiction.
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When kids don’t learn about their own heritage in school, they just don’t care about school… But you won’t see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.
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