Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
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Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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I ain’t no entertainer, and ain’t trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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That’s the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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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.
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I’ll play it first and figure out what it’s called later.
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You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
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