If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
MILES DAVISDrummers – sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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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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In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
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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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The way you change and help music is by tryin’ to invent new ways to play.
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It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.
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You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies – other people can’t get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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We’re not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got ’em, so they can keep ’em.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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