Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
MILES DAVISMy ego only needs a good rhythm section.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Music is an addiction.
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If I hear a song like “Time After Time.” I’m sittin’ there lookin’ at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin’ this song. I said, “God damnnnnn!”
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Always look ahead, but never look back.
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For me, music and life are all about style.
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If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you’re going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
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Food makes my mind sluggish.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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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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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
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There are no wrong notes.
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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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Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!
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