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.
MILES DAVISWe’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
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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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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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Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
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Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
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You can’t compete with Sweets’ sound and time feel. It’s impossible.
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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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Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
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