Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.
MILES DAVISAll my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
More Miles Davis Quotes
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Play what you know and then play above that
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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
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My future starts when I wake up every morning.
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If you have to ask, you’ll never know.
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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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In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
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What’s swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don’t have to ask anybody if that’s good music or not. You can always feel it.
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[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Don’t be afraid of mistakes – There are none.
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In music, silence is more important than sound.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow.
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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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You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
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