Play what you know and then play above that
MILES DAVISAlways look ahead, but never look back.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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I’m not messing around with nobody’s woman. If I want a woman I go get her – you know what I mean?
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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I’m out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I’m still playing.
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That was my gift having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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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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For me, music and life are all about style.
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To keep creating you have to be about change.
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You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
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I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it – like, they say “rock”. Because the white singers can’t sound like James Brown, they call him “soul”. They’ve been doing that for years. That’s the prejudice crap.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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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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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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When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
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